[Pearls Before Swine]

Nice graphs and stats.

Here’s a quote from an article I found: “More than one-in-five voters this cycle – 21 percent of the electorate — was an unmarried woman, and a majority — 60 to 38 percent – voted for Democrats. “

Link: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/where-were-all-dems-heres-who-turned-vote-n241696

Since maybe 65 to 70% of those single women are white, white single women almost certainly were a majority Dem vote. Perhaps less than 2008 thru 2012, but still....

That’s why we’re not done with the War on Women—it still works to some degree.

[kabar]

Here’s a quote from an article I found: “More than one-in-five voters this cycle – 21 percent of the electorate — was an unmarried woman, and a majority — 60 to 38 percent – voted for Democrats. “

Minority women vote overwhelming for the Dems as the graphs I provided show. In 2012 Black women made up 8% of the total electorate, Latinas 6%, and all others 5%. White women made up 38% of the total electorate. So combining the percentages white women 38% versus minority women 19% a two to one difference. When you weight these constituencies by how they voted, the minority women skew the data far more to the Dems.

Since maybe 65 to 70% of those single women are white, white single women almost certainly were a majority Dem vote. Perhaps less than 2008 thru 2012, but still....

I don't think you can make that assumption re percentage of those being single. Here are some BLS data that show that the percentage of white women who ever married is 90.4% compared to blacks 68.3%.

It would be interesting to learn what percentage of single women are white, but I doubt it is 60% or 70%. Non-Hispanic whites only make up 69% of the population (2012 figures).

IS MARRIAGE FOR WHITE PEOPLE? n clean and efficient prose, Banks presents a lucid picture of romantic life in black America. Moreover, he disposes of the mythology that the failure to marry is primarily an underclass phenomenon, turning his attention especially to the lives of middle-class black women. He has set out to answer the question: Why are black women “half as likely as white women to be married, and more than three times as likely as white women never to marry”?

The fact that it is difficult to find out this information about the voting rates by single women by race should set off alarm bells. I have no doubt that the data would show that the proposition that Reps are losing the single women vote is more of a function of race than marital status. In 2012 single women were 23% of the electorate and voted 67% to 31% for Obama and married women, 31% of the electorate voted 53% to 46% for Romney. Since white women marry at a much higher rate than blacks, it is easy to understand why married women tend to vote Rep.