David Yepsen's column today in the DM Register:
If unmarried women voted in the same percentages as married women, an additional 6 million people would be added to the electorate, a national group said last week. It's starting an effort to do just that, and polls indicate the result could pay dividends for Democrats.
The effort, "Women's Voices. Women Vote," is being organized by the Creative Concepts Project at the Tides Center, a nonprofit organization in San Francisco. The group says it was started "to promote responsible social change." Officially, the group is nonpartisan, but you can't harvest more votes of women without disproportionately helping Democratic candidates because women are more Democratic than men.
So do you guys know any single women? Get them registered to vote and make sure they get to the polls!
So why don't they vote? They "stay out of politics because they think that politics is too complicated, that politicians do not listen to them and that politics is controlled by powerful interests, such as corporations, so that it does not matter whether they vote or not," the group said.
So it's in the interest of the politicians to keep it just as complicated-sounding as possible. We can do something about that, right?
Maybe a new network of Single Women Bloggers. (I haven't checked around so maybe there's already such a thing.)
We could help support it if some single women could get it going!