News & Media
Page Gardner: “Unmarried Women on the Edge”
April 17th, 2013
Read this new piece on the Campaign for America’s Future blog by VPC founder Page Gardner, about the effects of the slow economy on the Rising American Electorate – and particularly unmarried women: “As an organization, we focus on the RAE because it represents the New American Majority. It makes up 54 percent of all [...]
Page Gardner/Celinda Lake in Politico: “Despite ‘autopsy,’ GOP could have revival in 2014″
April 8th, 2013
Read a new opinion piece in Politico from VPC founder Page Gardner and Lake Research Partners president Celinda Lake on the importance of the Rising American Electorate in the 2014 midterm elections…
WORST-OFF: SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES
March 14th, 2013
While women who work and raise families are in the news, check out this study about how policies shortchange single moms. By Timothy Casey & Laurie Maldonado “Worst Off – Single-Parent Families in the United States, A Cross-National Comparison of Single Parenthood in the U.S. and Sixteen Other High-Income Countries” is an exhaustive, critical analysis [...]
‘Rising American Electorate’ only one part of a divided electorate
March 4th, 2013
The Changing U.S. Electorate: America and the World U.S. domestic and foreign policy will largely be influenced by two factors in the current presidential term: the “Rising American Electorate” and an increasingly polarized American electorate. That was the view put forward by Thomas B. Edsall, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Unmarried Women Deeply Opposed to the Sequester, Research Finds
February 27th, 2013
Washington, D.C., February 27, 2013—Unmarried women are deeply opposed to the sharp cuts in the sequester and to a crisis approach to fiscal governance, according to a new study by pollster Stan Greenberg and the Women’s Voices. Women Vote Action Fund (WVWVAF). Based on research conducted during the President’s State of the Union Address, swing [...]
The New Republic on the Voting Rights Act
February 27th, 2013
[Dr. Brenda Williams] and her geriatrician husband, Joseph Williams, run a local nonprofit encouraging parents to marry, and back in 2007 they decided to also help townspeople register to vote. Brenda went to housing projects, the jail, anywhere she was likely to find disenfranchised people. [...] Williams began to help people secure photo IDs, and [...]
Doyle McManus: Wielding Wedge Issues
November 27th, 2012
From the Los Angeles Times: And there’s a bigger gap than the gender gap: the marriage gap. Most married women voted for Romney, 53% to 46%. But unmarried women went overwhelmingly for Obama, 67% to 31%. “The gender gap is big, but the marriage gap is huge,” Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg noted. And unmarried women [...]
The Culture War and the Jobs Crisis
November 13th, 2012
From Thomas B. Edsall in the New York Times… Single voters are more amenable than are their married counterparts to a government focused on social justice. Unmarried voters are substantially more vulnerable to economic downturns and the loss of a job; they look more favorably on such safety net programs as unemployment benefits, government-sponsored health [...]
VPC In The News
November 4th, 2012
“Pollster’s Analysis: Why women are not a voting bloc” J. Ann Selzer, Des Moines Register, November 3, 2012 “Obama’s Women Supporters and the ‘Marriage Gap’ Wild Card” Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast, November 4, 2012 “On Election Day, Single Women Could Sway the Vote” Elizabeth Flock, U.S. News and World Report, November 2, 2012
Voter Participation Center Boosts Early Voting in Key States
November 1st, 2012
Pre-Election-Day Voting Increases Participation Washington, D.C.—The Voter Participation Center (VPC) has encouraged millions of unmarried women, people of color and young Americans to vote early this election season, VPC President Page Gardner announced today. The VPC increased the pre-Election-Day participation of these traditionally lower-performing voters by 23 percent over the average registered voter, Gardner said. [...]
Effort Underway to Boost US Voter Participation
October 17th, 2012
by Chris Simkins The U.S. presidential election is approaching, and political parties and advocacy groups across the nation are making a final push to get people registered to vote and to the polls for the November 6th contest. Groups are mobilizing to get an underrepresented group of eligible voters involved in the process. Shakei Haynes [...]
What Women Want 2012: A YWCA USA National Survey of Priorities and Concerns
September 28th, 2012
September 27, 2012 Written by Celinda Lake and Kellyanne Conway Today, we and the YWCA USA are excited to release the results of What Women Want 2012: A YWCA USA National Survey of Priorities and Concerns, a comprehensive look at women’s priorities in advance of the 2012 presidential elections in the United States. We interviewed nearly 1,500 [...]
What Fergie and Seth Green Have to Do With Voter Registration
September 24th, 2012
By Michael Catalini The nonprofit, nonpartisan Voter Participation Center is out with a sleek music video featuring dozens of stars ahead of National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday. In the video, Fergie, Alyssa Milano, Kate Walsh, Sophia Bush and Seth Green are among the actors and performers who sing along to “L.O.V.E.,” Let One Voice Emerge, [...]
All-Star Celebrity Chorus Launch New Song and Music Video Encouraging Registration and Voting
September 23rd, 2012
Voter Participation Center and Balcony Films Present L.O.V.E. Campaign Fergie and dozens of celebrities encourage millions of Americans to register and vote (WASHINGTON, September 23, 2012) – In celebration of National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, September 25, The Voter Participation Center joins with Balcony Films for a release of a new music video and [...]
Voter registration drives adopting new methods
September 7th, 2012
BY BILL KACZOR TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Some organizations are turning to sophisticated data mining, direct mail, the Internet and other strategies to register voters typically underrepresented on the rolls, including young people and ethnic minorities. Others are simply targeting those who favor their political goals, such as conservative Christians. The shift away from more traditional voter [...]
4 Million Americans to Receive Voter Registration Materials by Mail in Coming Weeks: Outreach by NAACP, National Council of La Raza, Voter Participation Center & Other Partners
September 5th, 2012
New Digital & Traditional Tools Deployed to Increase Participation in Democracy WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Four million eligible voters in 28 states will soon have an opportunity to apply to register to vote when they receive voter registration applications in the mail. Americans everywhere also will be able to check their voter registration status or obtain a registration [...]
Pennsylvania Voter ID Ruling May Hurt Puerto Ricans Most
August 29th, 2012
By ELIZABETH FLOCK Is the new face of voter suppression in America of Puerto Rican descent? On the heels of a Pennsylvania judge’s ruling Wednesday that the Republican-supported voter ID law in the battleground state could stand, civil rights groups say Puerto Rican voters may be hurt the most. Republicans have maintained that they support voter ID laws [...]
Lopez: Voter Participation Center should be applauded
August 10th, 2012
By: Alfonso H. Lopez A recent news story, “Voter group has history of problems,” fails to address the history of barriers to registration that the Voter Participation Center and the National Voter Registration Act attempt to solve. This country, and Southern states in particular, have had a long history of manipulating voter registration laws and procedures [...]
Romney campaign “vote fraud” push dealt a setback in Virginia
August 8th, 2012
By Greg Sargent All eyes are on the battle over early voting in Ohio right now, but while you weren’t looking, a Romney campaign effort to challenge voter registration in Virginia — a key swing state — has been dealt a setback. Not long ago the conservative media lit up with claims — voting dogs and cats! — [...]
Editorial: Preventing Voter Fraud
July 24th, 2012
Everyone can help ensure voter registration is accurate. Virginia election officials have complained recently about the Voter Participation Center, which has sent registration material to ineligible voters — pets, the deceased and so on. No one need fear extensive fraud, though, so long as everyone acts responsibly. Given the number of complaints, the Voter Participation [...]
