Single women are the fastest-growing voting population in the country: 55 million unmarried women will be voting in the upcoming election, and it goes without saying that they’re not being courted by Romney/Ryan. When Ann Romney went off-script at the RNC to yell “I love you, women!” she later clarified that she was specifically addressing the “moms who always have to work a little harder, to make everything right.”
This specificity is pretty indicative of the female voting split along marital lines: married women favor Romney 51 to 41%, while single women prefer Obama 63 to 23%. Obama’s camp, on the other hand, has been targeting the group by releasing material like the Lena Dunham video, aimed at first-time female voters who are (ostensibly) in her unmarried demographic. On the flip side, there’s this:
Bill O'Reilly Is Not Thrilled That Single Women Might Decide Election
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Seeded on Sun Nov 4, 2012 6:02 AM
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