Posted on 10/30/2014 8:35:34 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Not only have women been a majority of the voters in recent elections (53% in 2012), they also kept President Obama in the Oval Office (55% of those women nearly 30% of all voters voted for President Obama in 2012). Obviously, women specifically, unmarried women decided the 2012 election.
According to exit polls from 2012 conducted by Edison Research, Obamas margin among unmarried women was 67 percent to Romneys 31 percent, giving him more than 11 million more unmarried womens votes than Romneys total; Romneys 53 percent of married womens votes compared to Obamas 46 percent amounted to only around 2.5-3 million more married votes than Obamas total. Thus Obamas margin among unmarried women was more than three times as large as Romneys margin among married women.
In Virginia, McAuliffe won the unmarried womens vote (18% of Virginia voters) by a 42-point margin (67%- 25%). Little wonder the Democrat candidates focus on free abortion, birth control, and entitlements and distort and demagogue the equal pay issues; those issues win among unmarried women voters (who are overwhelmingly dependent upon government support).
According to Celina Lake, a Democratic pollster, non-college-educated women (statistically more likely to be unmarried) are volatile voters who sometimes dont make up their mind until the end of an election campaign....
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Seems I’m never in the hip crowd.
Obamas margin among unmarried women was 67 percent to Romneys 31 percent
In Virginia, McAuliffe won the unmarried womens vote (18% of Virginia voters) by a 42-point margin (67%- 25%).
Far too many unmarried women see government as provider, romantic partner (in the case of Obama in 2008), and source of all the goodness in their lives.
How do each of these subgroups vote?
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