The decline of marriage over the last generation has helped create an emerging voting bloc of unmarried women who are profoundly reshaping the American electorate to the advantage, recent elections suggest, of the Democratic Party. What is far from clear is whether Democrats will benefit in the midterm contests this […] Read more »
What Republicans Need To Get Among Women to Win: 46%
This is not another piece talking about the GOP challenges among women voters. Nor is this another piece analyzing the data about the gender gap. Those are important to do, but this does not attempt to do that. … Instead, this asks the question – what is the difference in […] Read more »
Women’s Economic Agenda: Powerful Impact on the Vote and Turnout in 2014
This is a turning point in the 2014 off-year elections when parties, candidates and leaders can recognize how central are unmarried women and the Rising American Electorate to the Democrats’ chances and how clear a path there is to get their votes and get them to vote. This is the […] Read more »
Most Want to Prioritize Improving Veterans’ Health
Improving healthcare for U.S. veterans is Americans’ top legislative priority for Washington to focus on, out of nine issues now or recently in the national spotlight. Nearly nine out of 10 Americans say it is “extremely” (41%) or “very important” (46%) that the president and Congress deal with veterans’ healthcare […] Read more »
Winning Women: What Republicans Can Do in 2014
In our on-going effort to better understand key electoral sub-groups, Public Opinion Strategies commissioned a national survey of women voters on May 21-30, 2014. The survey was designed to provide a perspective on how the Republican Party and its candidates can productively move to engage women voters on issues they […] Read more »
A Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign could turn the gender gap into a gender gulf
If you think gender issues and the so-called “war on women” were at the forefront in the 2012 campaign, just wait until 2016. … It’s a given in politics today that men will vote more Republican, while women will vote more Democratic. That has consistently been the case for a […] Read more »