Syndicated columnist Bonnie Erbe has a column today entitled “Women in the Political Spotlight,” in which she notes some surprise that “[w]omen voters are the most coveted demographic in not one but two gubernatorial races this year.”  But there is something else surprising about the role of women in those two races that, unfortunately, no one in the media—despite several articles looking at the role of women voters - has yet to report.  It’s the marriage gap!

Women’s Voices Women. Vote congratulates Lifetime Networks for being nominated by the Association of Cable Communicators (ACC) for its Golden Beacon Award.  Lifetime received the nomination for its “Every Woman Counts” campaign, the entertainment industry’s only ongoing public advocacy campaign dedicated to amplifying women’s voices in the political process, encouraging them to register to vote, and to run for political office.   

The Golden Beacon award is the ACC’s highest honor and recognizes a communications and public affairs campaign for making an impact on the cable industry and enhancing the image of cable television.

Women’s Voices Women Vote was proud to be a partner in the Every Woman Counts Coalition and applauds the ACC for recognizing Lifetime’s contributions toward inspiring women nationwide to make their voices heard in the 2008 elections.

“Lifetime is truly deserving of this nomination,” said Page Gardner, President of Women’s Voices Women Vote.   “Lifetime’s Every Woman Counts Coalition was an unprecedented effort to bring women into the political process and to make their voices heard in our democracy.  It was also a tremendous success, reaching out to millions of women across the United States.”

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By Sarah Lai Stirland May 05, 2008 | 9:29:38 PM

The Washington, DC non-profit group Women's Voices, Women Vote says that more than half of the North Carolinians it helped to register to vote in the presidential primary between February and April this year were African American.

"In February, March and early April of this year, WVWV registered 26,000 voters in North Carolina, approximately 57 percent of whom are African American," the organization noted in a statement issued Monday. "No organization that would spend resources to register these voters would then turn around and attempt to disenfranchise them in May."

The group says that its mailings and automated phone calls, which featured an African-American male, and another female voice, went out to "all unmarried women – white, African American and latina – as well as to African American men and married African American and Latina women."

By Gerald Witt
News & Record

GREENSBORO — Syene Jasmin caught the bug when he heard the presidential hopeful speak.

Obamarama.

Jasmin, 19, a journalism major at N.C. A&T, said he checked out Barack Obama during a November rally at N.C. Central University in Durham.

Janet Bagnall
Montreal Gazette

For years now -- seven, to be exact -- Canadians have been able to take mean-minded comfort in knowing that no matter how bad our own political options seemed, Americans had it worse. It was, granted, Americans' choice to vote George W. Bush in as president, twice, but you had to feel for a country run by a man whose legacy will be tax cuts for the rich.

By LINDA HIRSHMAN,
The New York Times

1. The Female Thing

FOR MONTHS before the presidential primaries began, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was widely held to lead among women voters. That she would naturally appeal to her own sex accounted in no small part for her front-runner status. By the end of last year, national polls showed not only that Clinton was ahead but also that women supported her by 8 points more than men did.

By Laura Tutor
Anniston Star

Her life in political accomplishment started long before she was able to vote.

Teresa Lindsay remembers her mother and daddy hitting the campaign trail together. Solid Democrats, Jimmy Carl and Jane Moore worked the neighborhoods, fire halls and clubs of Blount County to further their cause.

The Gazette

Advocacy groups are touting some unusual blocs as power brokers in the presidential election: unmarried black women and Muslims.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations conducted a survey showing 80 percent of Muslims nationwide plan to vote in the primary elections.

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By Anna Ershova

One hundred twenty-five years after the first woman ran for president of the United States, the nation is closer than it has ever been to having a female president. But despite the increasing female presence in national politics, too many single women still do not vote, Page Gardner told a Slifka Center crowd Wednesday night.