If a woman is single, and expects to remain single for the rest of her life, one of her biggest concerns is FINANCIAL SECURITY. Remember the number one way women escape poverty is by marrying out of it. So what happens to those who don’t marry out of it? FAIR WAGES is a women’s issue. But that’s just for the here and now, what happens when she gets old? SOCIAL SECURITY is a women’s issue.

If she’s married, and she has kids, she worries about HER CHILDREN. That means EDUCATION and HEALTHCARE.

These used to be things the Democrats were good at, why can’t we be again?

The first came from that well-known Democratic political organizer of single women, Richard Nixon. When Nixon was running for Congress, one thing that he did was to encourage supporters to organize by profession. So if a supporter was a barber and knew another barber, the two of them would become president and vice-president of Barbers for Nixon.

A strategy that a community-level sexual assault crisis center once explored was to increase community awareness of the center by making sure that every licensed cosmetologist in the county knew who they were, had coffee mugs on site from the center, etc. Every beauty shop from el cheapo through the ritziest was targeted. The theory was that women might tell their stylist things they might not tell other people, if not about themselves then about their friends, so it was an untapped venue and perceived as a safer one.

Neither of these is a strategy but maybe they will lead someone to come up with a strategy.

:^)

Have the busses run the ususal school-pickup route.

and speaking of which: “I may be love’s bitch, but at least I’m man enough to admit it.” –Spike, BtVS

And your points about “powerlessness” of low and middle income people are well taken, Alice. That’s a very difficult thing to overcome.

That is my fantasy Hillary scenario for 2008 too. It would also give the winger pundicks another black-eye for saying she was going to jump in the race, just like they said she would in 2004.

-GSD