News Clips
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Group tries to keep voters going to the dogs
July 5th, 2012
By O. Ricardo Pimentel When it came in the mail from the Voter Participation Center, red flags flew — skepticism and suspicion being an occupational hazard. Though I am already registered to vote at my current address, it said that if I no longer lived at a previous address — in Wisconsin — I need to register. [...]
Civil rights groups launch voter registration drives earlier
May 11th, 2012
By Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY Voter registration among blacks is down from 2008, prompting the NAACP and other civil rights organizations to launch registration drives two months earlier than in past presidential election years. Leaders of the NAACP and other groups blame the decline on new state laws requiring people to produce identification to register or placing [...]
Stay-at-Home Moms in U.S. Lean Independent, Lower-Income
April 23rd, 2012
by Lydia Saad Fourteen percent of American women currently have a child under age 18 in their household and aren’t formally employed. While few in this group would be able to identify with Mitt and Ann Romney’s wealth, it is the segment of the population that could potentially be offended by recent commentary that Ann [...]
How to Expand the Voter Rolls
April 10th, 2012
EDITORIAL Published: April 6, 2012 A country that should be encouraging more people to vote is still using an archaic voter registration system that creates barriers to getting a ballot. In 2008, 75 million eligible people did not vote in the presidential election, and 80 percent of them were not registered. The vast majority of [...]
Obama Plans Big Effort to Build Support Among Women
March 12th, 2012
By JACKIE CALMES Published: March 10, 2012 WASHINGTON — President Obama’s re-election campaign is beginning an intensified effort this week to build support among women, using the debate over the new health care law to amplify an appeal that already appears to be benefiting from partisan clashes over birth control and abortion. On Monday, mailings will go out to [...]
