Register your single female friends to vote!!!

[DaveSZ]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/2004/la-na-women10may10,1,2317985.story?coll=la-home-headlines


Unmarried, Female and Turned Off by Politics
By Robin Abcarian, Times Staff Writer

*snip*

Because of their large numbers, she added, they have "the potential of changing the outcome of an election, particularly in a close race."


Many analysts predict that registering single women — and then getting them to vote — could result in a big payoff for Democrats.

As a group, unmarried women tend to have liberal views on social issues such as abortion, gun control and gay rights, pollsters say. When single women vote, they generally vote Democratic.

-more-

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. Especially since Repubs now want to deny them birth control too...

Not only abortion, but birth control. And not just emergency Morning After pills.

These nutjobs think that unmarried women should not be able to have access to The Pill.

[Cocoa]

2. Kerry should enlist those female whistleblowers

like the three that were the "Person of the Year" on Time magazine.

They're such an inspiring symbol of fighting that "old boy" perception about politics, that the article says is depressing these women's votes.

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. The problem is

that registering people to vote is one thing. Getting them to vote is another. If they are not registered, odds are they are not interested in politics. Getting them interested in politics is the key.

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. That's what I'm trying to do.

I've been trying to educate teenage girls with what's at stake, and what they have to lose.

I don't want them to be ignorant like I was at that age. I want them to fight for their rights.