22,000,000 Single Women didn't vote - here, a free movie addresses that

[Zan_of_Texas]

Twenty-two million single women did not vote in the 2000 election. Had they voted in the same numbers as married women, 6,000,000 additional votes would have been cast. In Florida that would have meant over 200,000 additional votes would have been cast.

This well-done, nonpartisan film attempts to address those women. Watch it online. Spread it around.

http://www.onevotefilm.com/

"One Vote" is a 6-minute video about women and voting, directed by two-time Oscar nominees Deborah Hoffmann and Frances Reid. At a time when women’s political muscle is more crucial than ever, "One Vote" aims to free voters from hopelessness, apathy and self-imposed disenfranchisement.

[pagerbear]

1. Frances Reid? Mrs. Horton from DOOL?

[NMDemDist2]

2. i watched it

but it didn't "wow" me. Wonder how it will play with the apathetic women I know...

[Eric J in MN]

18. yes, they should have made it more dramaitc (nt)

nt

[loftycity]

3. Great Post --Thanks!!

[Hoping4Change]

4. That is shocking. Is it a wonder women still earn less.

[tigereye]

11. I would be embarrassed not to vote

the worst of it is people thinking that their vote is meaningless and I think the Reps have encouraged this, as well as the nasty ad campaigns and lack of interest in politics in general. That is very disturbing.

[Hoping4Change]

12. I would too. But then sometimes women really shock me.

IMO I think that alot of women think voting is too manly and somehow compromises their feminity.

An incident which really has nothing to do with women not voting comes to mind because it says something about corporate hold over women. Several years at work some female co-workers were discussing deodorant. I mentioned that I use Mennen because you get twice as much product for the same price. Several women were horrified that I used a "male" deodorant but in a million years I would never think that I somehow endanger my sense of womanhood by using a product marketed to men.

So if male deodorant can compromise a woman's sense of self, I suppose engaging in the vote which might be seen as a male activity can do so as well.

[tigereye]

15. I have never heard that women felt that voting

compromised their femininity. I am a feminist - and women did not have the right to vote until less than 100 years ago. Voting is a precious gift. Wow! How did attitudes like that creep back into women's minds? Is that the result of post-feminist thinking... corporate power and no voting power?! Maybe they need to watch a few films about Elizabeth Cady Stanton or read some of the writings of the women from Seneca Falls!

[PurityOfEssence]

5. Texas Republicans want NO abortion, even in cases of rape and incest

That's right ladies, if the unthinkable happens, it's your problem and your responsibility. You're bound to bring to term an entity who's genetically half mean/violent/unprincipled.

Has anyone played really dirty and asked racist white Lily-belles out there how they'd like to carry some half-breed to term after being gang-raped by ethnics? (Yeah, it's an ugly approach, but I think the circumstances warrant it.)

A woman forced to bring an entity to term that constantly reminds her of a horror is given a life sentence that is deeply emotionally scarring. She may have feelings of love for the little bundle all tied up with hatred and disgust for the man with whom it will share characteristics. The joy of her love will be forever entwined with disgust, fear and depression. She will be constantly reminded that the world considers her its property, and that she has no say over her own life and body. This is the road to madness, and all because some sick, sex-fearing puritans refuse to back sex education, birth control and decent societal responsibility. Then, of course, she'll wonder why god did this to her, and what shreds of sanity remain by then will be pulled to their breaking point.

Republicans are anti-woman; it's as simple as that.

[Zan_of_Texas]

7. Purity of Essence, you need a new name.

Thanks anyway, I will not be using your talking point.

Threatening white women with gang-rape by "ethnics"?

Please take that stuff somewhere else.

[buycitgo]

13. zan, POE's post is sarcastic

and POE is from Dr. Strangelove, part of Gen. Ripper's rant, and the GO code on the CRM 114 radio, that they needed to send to get Kong's plane to return

he's on our side

[buycitgo]

6. ZAN! guess who?

I've started SEVERAL threads on this, with quotes from Stan Greenberg and others, delineating this problem/opportunity

and they sink faster than the chimp's approval ratings

good luck on this one

I may have a thread bookmarked; let me check....reminds me....just got a phone call from Gitana.....have to call back

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I38151-2004Aug03L

[Zan_of_Texas]

8. Hi Buy! Nice to see ya!

[buycitgo]

10. howdy, podunah! birdy num num (peter sellers reference)

re: above post about Texas trogs, zan

can you fill in a bit about the clinically insane Texas Republican Party Platform?

[buycitgo]

9. check this

"Unmarried women, given what they think and feel, are the group with the greatest potential to be agents of progressive change in this country because of their size, their desire for change, and their record of under-voting," says Page Gardner, manager of the "Women's Voices Women's Vote" project.

Never-married, divorced or widowed women constitute a whopping 24 percent of the electorate and 42 percent of all registered women voters. In the 2000 elections, they represented the same percentage of the electorate as Jews, blacks, and Latinos combined. In terms of voting muscle, few can compete with the girl power of this constituency.

The good news is that they overwhelmingly vote Democrat. In fact, when viewed strictly in terms of percentage points, Bush led by one point among married women in 2000, while unmarried women preferred Al Gore by 31 points.

The liberal tilt among unmarried women voters is less a matter of feminism than economics. Chris Desser, who heads the Women's Vote project, says that unmarried women's politics are shaped by their position as the sole breadwinner. "From an economic perspective, they make less money and they're living much closer to the edge," she says. "They're just one income away from disaster if anything were to happen."

Their precarious position in the U.S. economy makes them more responsive to core Democratic messages about health care, job security, and retirement benefits. "Democrats stand for helping people make their way in the world and offering the protection and assurances they need to do so," says Ruy Teixeira, co-author along with John B. Judis of "The Emerging Democratic Majority." Given a labor market skewed toward men and their single-income status, single women welcome the presence of a nurturing Uncle Sam in their lives.
http://www.alternet.org/story/17289



for those who don't remember, Greenberg is the pollster who persuaded Gore to switch to a more populist approach during the summer of 2000, which resulted in his numbers jumping up, passing Bush, maintaining a nice lead, until W went on the Oprah show, at which point the media jumped off the Gore bandwagon (to which they'd switched, briefly and very tentatively, cause he was AHEAD for a change).

if you want to bother, there's a ton of other stuff radiating from google page, too. some repetition, but worth a look for anybody serious about this

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=greenberg+single+women+voters&btnG=Google+Search

anyway, had Gore listened to him earlier on, things might have been different

this voting block has the potential to be THE key factor in this election, but doesn't seem to be catching on

[buycitgo]

14. see what I mean?

keeping this bookmarked/kicked til people start wising up

[athena]

16. Here is a movie for pro-choice women

This is another movie, and it's very powerful:
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/leftinthedark2/

Please forward this to all your pro-choice female friends who take their reproductive freedoms for granted.

[athena]

17. Single women an important group

and may determine the outcome of this election. Please, don't let this thread sink.

[buycitgo]

20. exactly

but, as you see, this isn't an issue of importance, for some reason

[Eurobabe]

19. kick, thanks for link!

[cally]

21. I hope this is used in most campaigns

Thanks for the link!