How unmarried women are turning into critical voters who could give Democrats ... trends now
America is more single than ever before, and unmarried college-educated women are quickly becoming the dominant voting bloc in U.S. politics.
Educated women and voters of color were primarily responsible for turning the 'red wave' into a red trickle in the 2022 midterm elections in the wake of the Supreme Court's controversial decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade which enshrined a federal right to abortion.
'It's like waking up a sleeping giant,' Shah said of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, overturning Roe v. Wade. 'The Democrats spoke directly to [unmarried women]. They said the Republicans are trying to take away your autonomy.'
In 2022, according to CNN exit polls, unmarried women voted for Democratic House candidates more than two-to-one - 68 to 31 percent. Sixty percent of voters said they were currently married, per the National Election Pool network consortium (NEP) exit poll.
Marital status was a defining factor for men too, but by much smaller margins - while married men broke for Republicans by 20 percent, unmarried men favored the GOP by seven percent.
Educated women and voters of color were primarily responsible for turning the 'red wave' into a red trickle in the 2022 midterm elections in the wake of the Supreme Court's controversial decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade
Education levels are key in this voting bloc as women are now the majority of college graduates - a whopping 59 percent. And women of color, as a group, returned to college in greater numbers than white women and men — in the 2020-21 school year according to a recent report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
'The college and post-college hookup culture, the decline in marriage rates among college-educated women, and the dearth of marriage-material men willing to commit, are all byproducts of lopsided gender ratios and a massive undersupply of college-educated men,' economics writer Jon Birger explains in his book 'Date-onomics'
Jennifer Lim, strategist and founder of Republican Women for Progress, said the GOP has understood its problems resonating with women for over a decade, but little has changed.
'Women, most notably single women, are one of the most critical demographics the GOP must be focused on in the next presidential election and beyond if the party is to survive,' she told DailyMail.com. 'Since at least 2012, the GOP has officially understood it needed to communicate more effectively with women, and since then it has made little progress.'
Without a 'cohesive policy platform' in a post-Roe world, Republicans 'have little to offer this demographic' Lim says.
In 2022, according to CNN exit polls, unmarried women voted for Democratic House candidates more than two-to-one - 68 to 31 percent
Women join the Woman's March in New York City
Ariel Hill-Davis, co-founder of GOP Women for Progress, said that the Republican Party is too
