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guillaumeb

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Mon May 21, 2018, 12:03 PM May 2018

The Incredible Untapped Power of Single Women Voters

From the article:

In cruising to a surprisingly easy victory Northam received an astounding 77 percent of the votes of unmarried women. And although these women make up 26 percent of the adult population, they comprised just 16 percent of the voters in the Virginia election.
Clearly one job for the Democratic Party is not only to adopt policies that appeal to single women but also to find a way to get them to vote in higher numbers.


To read more:

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/05/20/the-incredible-untapped-power-of-single-women-voters.html

In my view, it is vital for the Democratic Party to motivate the unmotivated. Appeals to working class Trump voters are a good idea, but not if such appeals mean embracing the misogyny and racism that is the core of Trumpism.
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The Incredible Untapped Power of Single Women Voters (Original Post) guillaumeb May 2018 OP
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