Voting and the Single Woman

HILLARY CLINTON’s relationship with male voters puts her in solidarity with every woman whose efforts to woo have ended in the unwelcome recognition “He’s just not that into you.” She is also unlikely to fare well with married women, who are reliably Republican voters. But that’s no reason Hillary can’t win the presidency. She will seek support from single female voters-and there are enough of them to deliver the White House.

White men abandoned the Democratic party long before Hillary came along to remind them of their sixth-grade hall monitor. Democrats haven’t won more than 43 percent of the white-male vote in 30 years. Al Gore carried only 36 percent of white male voters, and John Kerry only 37 percent. If no women had voted on Election Day 2000, George Bush and Dick Cheney would have carried 43 states.

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HILLARY CLINTON’s relationship with male voters puts her in solidarity with every woman whose efforts to woo have ended in the unwelcome recognition “He’s just not that into you.” She is also unlikely to fare well with married women, who are reliably Republican voters. But that’s no reason Hillary can’t win the presidency. She will seek support from single female voters-and there are enough of them to deliver the White House.

White men abandoned the Democratic party long before Hillary came along to remind them of their sixth-grade hall monitor. Democrats haven’t won more than 43 percent of the white-male vote in 30 years. Al Gore carried only 36 percent of white male voters, and John Kerry only 37 percent. If no women had voted on Election Day 2000, George Bush and Dick Cheney would have carried 43 states.