Why do single women?

Question

usually vote liberal, while married women usually vote conservative?.

"Unmarried women voted for Kerry by a 25-point margin (62 to 37 percent), while married women voted for President Bush by an 11-point margin (55 percent to 44 percent)… This was true of all age groups…"

http://www.vdare.com/sailer/050123_vindicated.htm

And why are the Dems and the media only focusing on getting single women to vote?.

Tracey, I asked a simple question. I was not looking for attacks on women that happen to disagree with you. Your intolerance is showing again.

Answer 1

Economics and world events are not at the top of their list. Its like shopping to them. What ever looks good or sounds good at the moment is good. Now there are some women that are an exception to that rule but, not a large majority.

Answer 2

The funny thing about statistics is you can always find a way to make any statistic fit any argument, so answering that with only the statistic and not the back ground on how the statistic was gathered (as in was the information gathered by polling at the exit polls, was it taken in certain areas and do the stats vary by age, etc.).

I think the better question is not why singles verses married women or men vote liberal vs. conservative... I think its what do you want to vote. Why vote according to statistics, why not chose to vote with your own independent beliefs? We spend so much time taking statistics, we forget the people and the lives behind them.

I think campaigns would be better served given less time in the media, (a whole year is too long) and more time to get to the facts, then each individuals, man or woman, vote with their own hearts, not what statistics tell them they should vote to 'fit in' with their group or because someone tells them they are wasting their votes if they don't back someone who is 'electable' in the eyes of the press or parties.

Answer 3

It would take some study to really know why, but my first suspicion would be as to whether conservative single women are voting much before they get married.

Single women, as a voting bloc, are one of the WORST voting blocs out there, with fewer than half of them who are eligible voting at all.

I voted from the time I was first eligible to vote. Throughout my single years (married at age 33), most other single women I knew who actually bothered to vote were liberals. The women I knew who felt that they shouldn't bother voting or felt that following politics made them appear less "feminine" tended to be conservatives. Those same women eventually BECAME voters either after marrying or, in most cases, after they became parents.

So, I'd be careful about assuming that a single female voter changes political views upon marrying, because the numbers of voters in each group are not on par with each other. I'd suspect that most likely, women who would lean conservative weren't voting earlier in their lives.

No liberal woman I've ever known who did vote as a single woman ceased being a liberal voter after marriage.

Answer 4

That's not always true. I've been married for more than 25 years and I tend to be liberal. I always have been this way. I have not gotten more conservative as I've gotten older. I don't believe people's political beliefs really change all that much except for those who never were sure or sincere in how they believed in the first place.

Answer 5

Hmm, I haven't noticed this. As a Texan, I'm voting for whoever is willing to take a stance on illegal immigration, which will most likely be a conservative, and I'm single.

Answer 6

From my observations, married women are unhappy. Sure in the spur of the momnent you may say "I love my man even thoigh blah blha blah".

That's why I won't be making this mistake!

Answer 7

It probably has to do with age, married (older) vs. unmarried (younger). Young people tend to be more liberal.

Answer 8

Jealousy.

The Planet Aphasia: You know some women who vote liberal and therefore married women don't usually vote conservative? Speaking of generalizations...

Answer 9

I wouldn't say "usually." But in the last two elections, it was Republican fear-mongering that got the so-called "Soccer Moms" to vote Republican. ("Vote for me or the terrorists will blow up your children.") I have a feeling at the next election, you'll find this reversed, as the boogeyman platform won't work anymore.

Answer 10

Untrue generalization. I know lots of married women in traditional roles who vote liberal.