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In reply to the discussion: Pollsters: Trump and GOP are losing young, female voters permanently [View all]Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)No reason to believe otherwise.
https://www.refinery29.com/2017/05/156740/single-women-equal-pay-voting
"Single women are a very powerful, progressive political force, yet compared to married women, they under-register and dont vote in as high percentages," says Page Gardner, the founder and president of the VPC. "Part of it is their lives are so stretched and stressed; almost half of them make minimum or sub-minimum wage. The second reason is [that] we make registering and voting somewhat difficult in this country."
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To be fair, he's a more optimistic recent article from 538, indicating young women may be more engaged this time, because of so many female nominees. I don't like adjustments from the norm so I'm not fully buying it. That block tends to stay home:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-young-women-might-get-more-women-elected/