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Will Solo Women Seal the 2008 Election?

Written by: Lea Lane 10/30/2008 6:23:54 AM
In 2000, 537 Florida votes changed history, and we’ve suffered mightily since. That’s why it’s crucial to get out every vote possible next Tuesday, and not forget about the cohort that numbers over a quarter of the electorate: single women.

Before the Pennsylvania primary CNN commented, "…it is the unmarried, young women voters, who are really key… unmarried women will be to progressives what the evangelicals were to conservatives and ... [they] will determine the future of this country."

Yet single women of any age, the fastest growing group of eligible voters (53 million), have been the least likely to vote of any group, including African-Americans or Hispanics: twenty million of them didn’t vote in the 2004 presidential election. Those who did voted overwhelmingly for Kerry.

Compared to marrieds, fewer single women have health insurance or own homes or cars. Almost half have household incomes of $30,000 a year or less, often working long hours for less pay than men. With one paycheck they’re often more at risk if they have their credit cut. They are frightened of losing their home, or getting laid off from work, and there’s often little to fall back on. Over ten million unmarried women are single moms, with kids at home and special worries about health care and retirement.

In this volatile economy single women suffer, and Hillary has done her best to encourage them to vote. But will they this time? Maybe it’s just because unmarrieds skew younger, and historically vote in low numbers. Many single women mean to vote but just don’t get around to it, and mundane realities thwart them: no one to prompt them when they’re tired and have to shop and cook after a work day, or they can’t find a babysitter so they can stand in line for hours at the polls.

Solos, if you haven’t yet, be sure to go out of your way to vote. And contact your single friends and offer them support so they can vote, too. Maybe rotate child care with a group, or carpool to the polls and then have an election party together.

Employers, please offer all your employees time off from work to vote. (Because of growing turnout, Obama suggests the day!) Fellow workers, please take over their responsibilities while your single co-workers go to the polls.

Right now, whether you’re a friend, acquaintance, work buddy or family member, call the single women in your life. Drive them, stand with them, babysit their children. Please, do whatever it takes to make it easier for single women to vote in this crucial election!
 




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