Calling All The Single Ladies!
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 29th, 2014
No this isn’t about Beyonce…although I do love her.
Good morning!
When women realize that we have the power in numbers to bring about the change we want, we’ll get to the polls and vote. The time to do that is NOW. There is no better time. If we are sick and tired of men making decisions for us, the time is NOW. If we are fed up with men telling us what we can and cannot do with our bodies, the time is NOW.
We have a a male president in his last term, a man who grew up surrounded by powerful women…a man who understands and who supports women. The time is NOW.
Ladies: I am tired of women having the power and not taking it. We need to stop our bitching, stand up for our sisters, use our voices and our vote, in our own best interest. Not in the interest of men who want to control us. Let’s lead and stop following lockstep. It is our time, and…The time is NOW.
From The New York Times:
To Hold Senate, Democrats Rely on Single Women
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 Court’s 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 women’s 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.
A Key Voting Bloc for Democrats
Half of all adult women over the age of 18 are unmarried — 56 million, up from 45 million in 2000 — and now account for one in four people of voting age. (Adult Hispanics eligible to vote, a group that gets more attention, number 25 million this year.) Single women have become Democrats’ most reliable supporters, behind African-Americans: In 2012, two-thirds of single women who voted supported President Obama. Among married women, a slim majority supported Mitt Romney.“You have a group that’s growing in size, and becoming more politically concentrated in terms of the Democrats,” said Tom W. Smith, director of the General Social Survey at the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago.
Single women, Democrats say, will determine whether they keep Senate seats in states including Alaska, Colorado, Iowa, Michigan and North Carolina — and with them, their Senate majority — and seize governorships in Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, among other states.
The party is using advanced data-gathering techniques to identify unmarried women, especially those who have voted in presidential elections but skipped midterms. By mail, online, phone and personal contact, Democrats and their allies are spreading the word about Republicans’ opposition in Washington — and state capitals like Raleigh — to pay equity, minimum wage and college-affordability legislation; abortion and contraception rights; Planned Parenthood; and education spending.
Nowhere is the courtship of unmarried women as intense as in North Carolina, where Senator Kay Hagan, a Democrat struggling for a second term, recently has shown gains even in a Republican poll. Midway through a recent Saturday of campaigning, she described her mobilization strategy: “Heels on the ground.”
Among those ground troops is Emma Akpan, an unmarried 28-year-old graduate of Duke Divinity School, who works to register voters but said she understood why so many single women are hard to reach. In an election without presidential candidates and the news media attention they draw, Ms. Akpan said, many women busy with jobs and perhaps children see no point in voting.
“If I wasn’t doing this work,” she conceded, “I probably wouldn’t pay attention either.”
In the 2012 presidential election, 58 percent of single women voted. This fall that could slide to 39 percent, a one-third drop, according to projections from the nonpartisan Voter Participation Center, which for a decade has focused on unmarried women.
“A lot of these are single moms, they’re young, and young people don’t know when there’s an election,” said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, during a recent four-state bus tour to raise awareness. “It isn’t any lack of civic-mindedness. They’re just living their lives in a different way than, say, seniors are.”
In May, Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, and James Carville, a party strategist, called on Democrats “to make major targeted efforts aimed at unmarried women.” They warned that support among them was down from early 2010, the previous midterm-election year, when the Tea Party’s rise powered a Republican romp.
The Democrats’ model is last year’s victory in the off-year election for Virginia governor. Terry McAuliffe, bolstered by groups like Planned Parenthood’s political advocacy arm, beat a conservative Republican officeholder after a campaign in which women were repeatedly reminded about his rival’s record against reproductive rights. In a race decided by just over two percentage points, Mr. McAuliffe won unmarried female voters by 42 points.
This year Democrats modified the McAuliffe model to emphasize pocketbook issues, too. While single women generally are socially liberal, “the issues they really care about are economic,” Mr. Greenberg said.
Personal economics help explain the difference in voting patterns between unmarried and married women, analysts say. Unmarried women, especially single mothers, have greater “economic vulnerability,” said Ruy Teixeira, a political demographer at the left-leaning Center for American Progress. “Married people are typically a bit more secure and have more buffers, so that tends to make them a bit more conservative.”
Democrats say one advantage they have this year, compared with 2010, is that they can cite Republicans’ voting records since taking power that year in the House and in states like North Carolina. “The policy issues that unmarried women care about are legitimately under attack,” said Kelly Ward, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
In response, Republican strategists are urging candidates to counter such talk of a Republican “war on women” by describing party policies as pro-family. Democrats “know if they can paint Republicans as meanspirited, that’s very helpful with women,” said Katie Packer Gage, a Republican consultant for the party’s effort to reach out to women. In a Twitter posting on Wednesday, her firm said, “Our party needs to take seriously the Democrats’ efforts to turn out single women.”
By then, however, a Fox News reporter had ignited a social-media furor by mocking the diverse bloc as Democrats’ “Beyoncé voters” — for the entertainer’s hit song “Single Ladies” — who depend on the government since they lack husbands.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee calls its new voter-mobilization program Rosie, evoking Rosie the Riveter, for Re-engaging Our Sisters in Elections. Among outside groups, the Voter Participation Center has sent registration materials to single women in 24 states, including North Carolina, and will follow up through the fall.
Emily’s List and Planned Parenthood’s action fund are heavily engaged, and they will spend $3 million each on their top priority: Ms. Hagan’s race here against the Republican Thom Tillis. Of Planned Parenthood’s 140,000 members statewide, 50,000 joined since Republicans took power in 2011.
Mr. Tillis, as the state’s House speaker, is widely known for leading a run of conservative activism. The state has cut business taxes while reducing spending for education, unemployment benefits and Planned Parenthood. It has restricted abortion clinics, enacted voting limits, ended teacher tenure and rejected a federally funded Medicaid expansion. On the Tillis campaign website’s summary of his stand on issues, the symbol for jobs depicts a man’s dress shirt and tie.
“Voters are surely going to take a long look at what Thom’s done in the General Assembly,” said Daniel Keylin, his communications director. But “at the end of the day, this race is going to be a referendum on Kay Hagan and what she’s done in Washington” supporting a president who is unpopular here.
Since spring, the Republicans’ record has stoked a Moral Monday movement of weekly protests at the legislature, drawing a diverse crowd including labor, civil rights and women’s groups. “I have never been especially political,” said Jenny Spencer, 26, an unmarried lab technician, at one evening protest. “But in the last year or so I think it’s become increasingly important in North Carolina not just to have your own views but to really make a point of advocating them.”
Ms. Hagan, at a luncheon of Democratic women in Charlotte, promised “the biggest ground game we’ve seen in North Carolina for a U.S. Senate race,” adding, “It can only happen with your support.”
From there, Jackie Blair, a 34-year-old unmarried hotel operations manager, left to canvass door-to-door for Ms. Hagan. Raised a Republican in Nebraska, Ms. Blair said she switched because of Republicans’ stances on reproductive rights, health care and pay equity. At work, she said, she gets ribbed for encouraging other women to vote.
“They always say they will,” she said, “but I don’t know if they actually do.”
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Readers: “Heels on the ground.” I love that. Let’s do it, ladies! The time is NOW.
Blog me.
Irene: Excellent addition to my write. Thank you for taking the time and explaining EXACTLY how it happens.
Jessica: :)) It won’t be the last time I or my blog is called out as “man-hating.” But let me say that I am thrilled that you have found your voice and are using it – Go girl! Love it. And…delighted that your cuz loves my blog and gets it. Points are scored all around. Let’s HOPE he is spreading the word and inspiring his male friends too. Thank you!
Read in the NY Post: Very interesting. Me too. I’m for Warren. I just heard that her answer to “Will you run for president?” changed from “I am not running for president,” to “I don’t think so.” Interesting too, huh?
Peace Out.
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October 30th, 2014 at 6:48 am
Michelle, it seems you are really set on influencing your readers to get out and vote. It also seems that some folks don’t want that message to get out. I tried all day yesterday to find your blog but I couldn’t I found it this morning. It is 9:48 am Thursday.
I see that not even Zen Lill could get in.
October 30th, 2014 at 6:55 am
Michelle, I was not aware of how the GOP got so many members in the House even though Obama won their states. That explanation from Irene Irene Says: 5. October 28th, 2014 at 7:42 am (thank you Irene) was a real education in Politics 101.
It would never have occurred to me it was that easy to steal that much power on a national level. We as a country are being run like a 3rd world dictatorship. The republican party has gerrymandered their way into immense power over the majority by this method.
We must ask the dems to work on legislation that prevents this kind of District drawing.
October 30th, 2014 at 7:10 am
I hope the single white women will come to their senses in time to help the Dems.
October 30th, 2014 at 7:11 am
The time is definitely right. I just hope they come through.
October 30th, 2014 at 7:16 am
Frankly Michelle, women don’t deserve anymore than they get. If they want more then, they should do like us me. We get out and organize the vote for what we want.
Women it seems feel that they can sit on their political asses and beg or shame men into giving them what they could get for themselves at the polls.
I’m not for giving them shit. If they want me to stay out of their wombs, then they can tell me at the polls.
October 30th, 2014 at 7:54 am
Thank you Irene (#5. yesterday) for that explanation. I have been so empowered because of that. My friends who often claim that the majority didn’t like Obama’s performance after giving the “N” a chance so they elected republicans to keep him in check.
Now I now it had nothing to do with what the majority wanted. It was a steal by gerrymandering and giving themselves more representatives while limiting the number the majority could send to the House.
When I called my best friend and told her what I read she read your post and called me delighted to attend our next Tea, We are going to ROAR!.
Thanks Irene. I usually find great stuff from Zen Lill. This was a pleasant surprise.
October 30th, 2014 at 7:59 am
Single women need jobs not free birth control pills. Obama’s regulatory
regime, corrupt agencies, and mafia-styled attacks on business have slowed job creation markedly.
In addition, the equal pay equal work legislation will cost women jobs. Why hire a woman who might sue when a man is available at the same price and won’t get pregnant? Roe v Wade and same-sex marriage won’t be repealed so there is no reason for women to favor
Dems anymore. Wake Up.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:02 am
Women voters realize Democrats lied through their teeth about Obamacare saving us $2500 per year, keeping our doctors & insurance.
Unless women are getting their Obamacare subsidized by their friends, and neighbors, they will see their family’s standard of living drop when their disposable income is swiped to cover unaffordable deductibles & premiums.
Women do not vote on abortion alone, and most will never have one. Women are impacted by this anemic economy, and world events as much as men are.
Women realize they are being taken for granted., and continuing to allow that will have a negative impact on them.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:04 am
Doesn’t this all mean that married women and especially men are more important to the Democrats’ chances? After all, they are now voting mostly Republican while once they voted Democrat – so it is up to the Democrats to win them back.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:07 am
I keep hearing “Single women are turning into a huge question mark for Democrats.” That is just bullshit. Again my race is guilty of acting as if only their race represents this country.
Actually it is white single women who are voting like their white males, color over common sense. What on god’s green earth does the republican part have to offer a woman?
This white woman is voting with her brains that means I am voting democrat. Michelle keep the articles coming. Maybe just maybe you will drive some sense into these idiots that vote republican.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:09 am
Gerry#8, Lies about Obamacare do no good. Nobody promised you $2500 a year savings – where’s your link to prove it (Brietbart doesn’t count).
A woman would have to be insane to vote Republican.
The GOP is against EVERYTHING a single woman cares about. starting with a livable minimum wage and going on from there.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:12 am
Glen#7, so you are advocating that women accept less pay than a man for doing the same work because she won’t be hired if she doesn’t.
You are the kind of white bigot who used to tell minority to accept less rights than a white man because whites would hire them if they insisted on being treated equal to a white man.
Fuck you! You racist piece of shit.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:14 am
Debra#11, Obama stated the $2500 lie in many speeches I heard myself.
As to the minimum wage: an increase from $7.25 to $10.10
is a 40% increase.
Even the economically challenged should comprehend that few businesses can’t afford an increase of that size for labor. Bear in mind that unions use any rise in the minimum wage to get a comparable raise. Jobs will be lost
as robots and kiosks replace the minimum wage worker.
Geographical differences make federal mandates impractical. If you want to continue Obama’s monarchy and open borders, you don’t understand the importance of freedom or sovereignty. Both are being irrevocably destroyed.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:19 am
80% of these women are parasites looking for a sugar daddy
October 30th, 2014 at 8:21 am
White women who believe the GOPe aka the Stoopid Party will save them are Losers.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:22 am
I believe you Veronica#15, And it will probably work. That just proves that women should never have gotten the vote.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:28 am
Glen#13, sure you read it. Tell that lie to your choir. Those idiots will believe anything. Here, unless you can provide a link, you are just another L.ying S.ack O.f S.hit.
And as for your “Sovereignty” bullshit, that tired canard worked for a while so you racists assholes could continue slavery in the south, but since it has been used by republican governor to run their states into the ground it has no power now.
I mean unless you want the sovereignty to turn your state into a welfare state sucking on the federal tit while you bit the nipple, get off that horse.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:29 am
Steel#16, Of course they will. White women are the single largest bloc of potential voters in the nation, and as dumb as a box of rocks.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:32 am
Steel#16, The main issue here should be race, not marital status.
Young Black college educated women vote almost 100% Democrat.
Young Hispanic women vote at least 75% Democrat.
Compare that to white women age 18-29 in the last election:
Romney 49% – Obama 48%
October 30th, 2014 at 8:35 am
white women are so easily guilted for being white women, by the left. sure wish they weren’t.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:36 am
So the majority of women are statist / collectivist / communists who want to collapse our society. Duly noted. Damn prosperity. Vote for gender, vote for pigment. Rah, rah…
(Yep, it’s late and I get cranky reading this stuff).
October 30th, 2014 at 8:37 am
Re: “White women are the single largest bloc of potential voters in the nation.”
And, except for the 18-25 age group, they vote Republican in EVERY election.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:38 am
Zana#22, They also use up 95% of the nation’s condoms. That causes global warming.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:41 am
“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”
Thus another Liberal goal exposed inadvertently.
Destroy traditional marriage for future votes from a needy class.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:42 am
Most single women vote for government largesse that is a direct threat to the well being of other, married women as well as men. Single women will be the economic ruin of this nation if they keep voting based on their lady bits and their need for security.
They pride themselves on their independence, i.e. “I don’t need NO man!”, but they’re usually quite dependent on their husband, Uncle Sam.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:43 am
“single white women” that no rational man would want to marry or have a relationship with. Sandra Skank comes to mind. There is a reason why they are still alone.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:44 am
Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).
October 30th, 2014 at 8:45 am
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.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:45 am
Dems get a higher percentage of all nonwhite, female categories than they do white women.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:50 am
MG#27, on the contrary Affirmative Action has been the biggest benefit to white males in the history of this country. Without it white males wouldn’t hold the privilege positions they hold today.
That was given to the by government action singling them out to get the right to hold governmental, legal, professional, positions exclusively.
So when the OTWs take some of those privileges back and as for reparations you hypocrites call that affirmative action. Sorry we aren’t buying it.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:51 am
80% of these women are parasites looking for a sugar daddy
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.
October 30th, 2014 at 8:53 am
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!
October 30th, 2014 at 8:54 am
First of all, make sure you are looking at 2012 data, not 2008.
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.
October 31st, 2014 at 9:31 am
[…] Candi et al: Yes, I am. The write was about single women, but I am calling ALL women too…married, divorced, old, young, all women of all color. Because this is it. If we’re going to give Obama, the only male president that I am confident that will go to bat for women, a chance to be a support to women and this country…to bring it home in his last run as president, this is the time that we, the Dems, need to be at the polls voting for the Dems. […]