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Article: Unmarried women turning out
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- January 30, 2008
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SINGLE women were supposed to be the Democrats' guest of honor on
Election Day. Excuse me, unmarried women. The party has studied
unmarried women so much it knows they don't like to be called single
women.
But something wild is happening. Unmarried women are crashing the
party early. In Iowa, they were 28 percent of Democratic caucus-
goers. In New Hampshire, they were 22 percent of the party's primary
voters, and in South Carolina, 30 percent. Those are big numbers -
for them.
"It's exceptional given past history," Sarah Johnson of the
Democratic-aligned group "Women's Voices. Women Vote" told me.