From ABC news::
By more than 30 points, a Women's Voices Women Vote poll found that Obama leads McCain 61-29% in 14 key battleground states among unmarried women and is corroborated by a recent ABC poll as well.
Those findings jibe with the latest ABC News poll released in July, which found Obama leading McCain nationally among unmarried women voters 59 to 32 percent.
"Unmarried women are to progressives what evangelicals are to the conservative movement," Page Gardner, founder and president of Women's Voices Women Votes, told ABC News.com.
These results are particulary interesting (and very good news) because according to the ABC news article, unmarried women are the nation's fastest growing demographic. But wait, it get's even better. Evidently this block has a history of voting overwhelmingly democratic.
The upward trend in unmarried women could help Obama in November because single women are one of the most reliable Democratic voting groups, Gardner said. Exit poll results going back to 1992 show an overwhelming majority of unmarried women reliably voting for the Democratic candidate.
There is a catch however, and that is that while it's true that among those unmarried women who do vote, they trend heavily democratic, a large percentage of single women do not vote at all, either due to time constraints, cynicism, or because they simply lack interest in the political process. In 2004 over 20 million single women did not vote.
However, WVWV has initiated a massive voter registration effort which hopefully will bring large numbers of them to the polls.
In 2004, 20 million unmarried women didn't participate in the election. Women's Voices Women Vote has launched a campaign to try to increase the number of unmarried registered voters, creating public service announcements featuring Hollywood actresses including Julia Louis-Dreyfus of "Seinfeld" fame.
In August Gardner is mailing 6.5 million voter registration applications to unmarried women in 35 states along with information about the candidates' positions.
All in all, it looks like really good news not only for this year's elections, but also for the long term future, as I have detailed previously, we are already in the midst of a long term youth powered re-alignmnet towards democrats. This is icing on the cake.