| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/07/24, 3:37 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Unmarried women, a key voting bloc for Democrats, are expected to vote less in 2014 than they did in the 2012 presidential election. But a new poll shows they may be motivated to turn out in greater numbers if candidates reach out on economic issues important to women, such as equal pay for equal work and protections for pregnant workers.
"It was very surprising how many women are looking at equal pay and other economic policy issues as relevant to them," said pollster Stan Greenberg, whose firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner conducted the poll with the Women Voices Women Vote Action Fund and the Voter Participation Center, on a call with reporters Monday. "Women on the edge who don't have the backup of a partner are trying to manage work life and family life – and they can be motivated to engage by Democrats on these issues."
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