Posted on 07/02/2014 9:22:02 PM PDT by Steelfish
To Hold Senate, Democrats Rely on Single Women By JACKIE CALMES JULY 2, 2014
Senator Kay Hagan, center, a North Carolina Democrat struggling to secure a second term, recently has shown gains in polls.
RALEIGH, N.C. The decline of marriage over the last generation has helped create an emerging voting bloc of unmarried women that is profoundly reshaping the American electorate to the advantage, recent elections suggest, of the Democratic Party. What is far from clear is whether Democrats will benefit in the midterm contests this fall.
With their Senate majority at stake in November, Democrats and allied groups are now stepping up an aggressive push to woo single women young and old, highly educated and working class, never married, and divorced or widowed. This week they seized on the ruling by the Supreme Courts conservative majority, five men, that family-owned corporations do not have to provide birth control in their insurance coverage, to buttress their arguments that Democrats better represent womens interests.
But the challenge for Democrats is that many single women do not vote, especially in nonpresidential election years like this one. While voting declines across all groups in midterm contests for Congress and lower offices, the drop-off is steepest for minorities and unmarried women. The result is a turnout that is older, whiter and more conservative than in presidential years.
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Why’d you vote for obammy little lady?
Cause he’s so handsome and has such a nice smile.
But he’s Marxist mooselimb and a fag to boot and he really hates America and Christians.
Yes but he has a nice smile.
Stupid, single white women.
While I haven't been posting here all that long, that has to be on my top ten of dumbest posts I've seen. Maybe number 1.
Just another democratic party interest group that hates the other democratic party interest groups. None of these women want to live next to the disease ridden third worlders who have no respect for political correctness.
It is this combined with importing a 3rd World underclass that will mean the end of the GOP as a conservative party. There will be a party called the GOP but it will run claiming it will run the administrative/welfare state better than the other guy not challenging said state. Freedom only works for a responsible moral people and a 40% bastard rate means WE ARE DOOMED. The only freedom left is you can screw as many people and type of people as one wants with the rest of us picking up the tab of the consequences. Pills and Circuses!
How do white “single” women (unmarried, divorced, separated, widowed) vote in this age bracket? According to Gallup they voted overwhelmingly for Obama.
Second, I've never seen white single women broken down by age group.
However, that number would be in the raw data, so no doubt someone has done it.
Third, I'm using NEP exit polls, not Gallup.
NEP is what all the major news networks and elite newspapers use.
In 2012, NEP says the TOTAL white woman vote was:
Romney: 56%
Obama: 42%
NEP also reports the white women age 18-29 vote was:
Romney: 49%
Obama: 48%
Based on those two data points, I would estimate that young white single women voted around 44%-45% for Romney.
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