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Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Unmarried women key in '04
By Scott Shepard
COX NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON - Unmarried women could decide the 2004 presidential election if they register and vote in higher numbers, a study released Tuesday said.
Single women, if they get involved in the campaign, also could force the White House candidates to offer concrete proposals rather than political symbolism, said the principal researchers, Democratic pollsters Stanley Greenberg and Celinda Lake.
"They don't respond to symbols, they respond to results," Greenberg said at a breakfast to publicize the study and a national effort to increase the number of single women registering and voting in 2004.
The registration drive is the work of an organization called "Women's Voices. Women's Vote," under the auspices of The Tides Center, a San Francisco-based foundation that promotes social change.
Although the effort is nonpartisan, its success would probably benefit the Democratic Party over the GOP in the 2004 election because unmarried women are "distinctly progressive" in their political views and "more likely to describe themselves as liberals," Lake said.
Significant numbers of unregistered single women are in battleground states in the campaign, according to U.S. Census data: 202,640 in Florida; 184,320 in Ohio; 167,920 in Pennsylvania; 125,040 in Michigan; and 106,200 in Illinois.
In 2000, there were 16 million unmarried, unregistered women and 22 million unmarried women who were eligible to vote but did not.
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ON THE '04 BALLOT IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA:
President, vice president
1 U.S. Senate seat
2 U.S. House seats
6 Arizona Senate seats
12 Arizona House seats
All major Pima County offices
Important dates:
Democratic presidential preference primary: Feb. 3, 2004
(There will be no Republican primary)
State, local primary election: Sept. 7, 2004
General election: Nov. 2, 2004
Democratic presidential preference election registration deadline: Jan. 5, 2004
Primary election registration deadline: Aug. 9, 2004
General election registration deadline: Oct. 4, 2004
For more information on elections, contact the Pima County Recorder's Office at: recorder.co.pima.az.us/
or by phone at:
main office, Downtown
-- (520) 740-4350
East Side Office -- (520) 740-4350 (select voice-menu option)
Recorder's Office voter registration information -- (520) 740-4330
2003 CITY OF TUCSON ELECTION
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS:
Results from early balloting and 158 of the city's 158 precincts
Prop. 100: FAILED
(Raises mayor and council salaries)
Prop. 200: FAILED
(Raises taxes to pay for transportation projects)
Prop. 201: FAILED
(Outlines how Prop. 201 money would be spent, including a light rail project)
• Detailed results
Mayor:
Walkup (R): RE-ELECTED
Volgy (D)
Swanson (L)
City Council:
Ward 1:
Ibarra (D): RE-ELECTED
Rios (R)
Ward 2:
West (D): RE-ELECTED
(no opponent)
Ward 4:
Scott (D): RE-ELECTED
Jenkins (R)
• Detailed results
See complete coverage of the 2003 Tucson city election, and other 2003 elections of local interest
Contact the Star's political reporter, C.J. Karamargin, by phone at 573-4243, or by e-mail: cjkarama@azstarnet.com
See our election resource page for links to useful information.
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