Thursday, October 18, 2012

Singles an Important Voting Bloc

Demographer Joel Kotkin writes of the Single Nation, by which he means that subset of Americans who are unmarried adults, many without children. He argues that this group is important to the Democrats this year and in the immediate future as a major component of their voting coalition.

See his article in The Daily Beast for more details. One cute factoid Kotkin gives us is that today more American households have dogs than have children!