More women in America are choosing to remain single.

According to a recent New York Times analysis of census data, there are more single women in America today than there are married women.

Married women outnumber single women at the voting booth in this country, cycle after cycle. Representing almost a quarter of the electorate, unmarried women are a "political gold mine," according to Page Gardner, the founder and president of Women's Voices. Women Vote., a nonprofit that works to turn out this group. With an estimated 20 million not registered to vote, "women on their own" make up the largest non-voting bloc in the country.

Presidential strategists, take note. In the last general cycle, tacticians noted that unmarried women could make for one powerful voting bloc -- if only more of them would vote. Around 21 million of them did not cast a ballot in 2004, and in an era when a national candidate has lost by fewer than 600 votes (Bush vs. Gore in 2000), a little more engagement from this group could make the difference.

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