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> To get a sense of how powerful the marriage effect is, not just for women but for men, too, look at the exit polls by marital status. Among non-married voters
by usaar333 14y ago
> To get a sense of how powerful the marriage effect is, not just for women but for men, too, look at the exit polls by marital status. Among non-married voters – people who are single and have never married, are living with a partner, or are divorced – Obama beat Romney 62-35. Among married voters Romney won the vote handily, 56-42.
I'd be interested in seeing these numbers adjusted for age, various SES indicators, etc.
- clarkm 14y agoYou can do all the crosstabs you want here: http://elections.reuters.com/#poll http://elections.reuters.com/#poll The marriage gap is much bigger than the gender gap, age gap, and any socioeconomic gap. I think it falls right below the race gap in terms of size, and is probably on par with the religious/non-religious gap.
- tomjen3 14y agoAgreed. Young people and single mothers are both very unlikely to be married and already known to hugely favor Democrats.
- mtoddh 14y agoInteresting, my guess is this is the demographic the Obama campaign was courting with the Life of Julia [1] slide-show a while back- http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/ http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/
- dnu 14y agoBut if everybody lives like Julia, who the hell will do the hard work anymore?
- throw_away 14y agoAre you saying that web design and starting your own small business (as did Julia in the ad) isn't hard work?
- boboblong 14y agoI think his comment was more along the lines of, "Who will dig the ditches?" I'm sure HN's response is, "Robots, if all goes as planned."