Who Votes Democratic?
Excerpts from National Review In analyses of the last presidential election and polls measuring the current election one group stands out as disproportionately Democratic: unmarried women. .. It is tempting to attribute this to the support of women in general for the Democrats, but that is inaccurate: Married women favor Republicans. Nor is being single a predictor of Democratic support unmarried men also prefer Republicans. .. One explanation is that the Democratic party offers itself and the government as the protector of, and provider for, millions of single women. The Democratic party offers its governance as a surrogate husband and it is so regarded by many unmarried women. Most women have a primal desire to be protected, and, if they have children, to have their children protected. .. Whether or not one accepts these explanations, what is unquestionable is that there are two very undesirable social consequences of unmarried women making Democratic victories possible. One is that
