Absinthe & Cookies (a bit bitter, a bit sweet)

Hey, lots of people find politics complicated. The difference is, most men won't admit to being confused. [Think of the whole "asking for directions" thing.]

Well, I probably wouldn't admit it. But then, I'm not confused about it. Unless, of course, I'm refusing to admit my confusion.

Confusing, no?

But so complicated you don't vote because you have no understanding at all?

At least they are "nonvoting". After all if you don't know how the stove works get out of the kitchen.

married women more often adopt their husband's political outlook -- which tends to be more conservative -- than the other way around.

And once again, I find that I'm the husband and John's the wife. Whee.

That's my house too. The democrat is inching ever more rapidly to the right (yay!).

In fact, his sister was so pissed at him at Christmas she started calling him "The Republican"
Hah!

I didn't know you had a 'mixed' marriage!

What a load of crap. I so very much enjoy Michelle Malkin, Cassandra (of Villainous Company) and Alexandra (of All Things Beautiful). Informed, Insightful, Impassioned. HOT.
Take it from this dinosaur, the primary sexual organ is the brain. A chick that can lead you to think something new, see another side; a doll you can really talk with, is as rare and as precious as a girlfriend who's mute.
Why don't more single gals behave as married women do?

Ed, what's crap? The statistic about single women? As for why don't we behave like married women, uh, because I'm not married, I guess? [shrug] Though, I worked somewhere once, where for months, my coworkers assumed I was married. They were shocked to discover I was not, and said something to the affect of "I seemed married". Still don't know what that meant.

THAT polling group asks THAT cohort and gets a BARBIE answer.
"Hello non-voting single woman, Why don't you vote?"
Did you expect anything as candid as, "I take no interest in our governance." "I'm not persuaded of the value of democracy." "'Don't blame me, I didn't vote' promises less regret than 'God how he snookered me and I have no one to blame but myself'"
'Crap' is thinking that manufacturing numeric support of the COMFORTABLE answer is producing a valid stat.
What I see, of women arguing issues, is married women, women with more brothers, women closer to strong fathers are more likely to say "Let's look it up" "Let's test both" "Explain why you disagree, let's settle it".
But I don't like arguing with you, sweetie, can't we play something else?

What I see, of women arguing issues, is married women, women with more brothers, women closer to strong fathers

I'm none of the above, so I have no way to know how that would affect my being an informed and active voter. I can't imagine it would make me any more interested in current events than I am now -- and I've been a political junkie since I was a teenager.

Not sure who's arguing with you, or who 'sweetie' is, but for my part, all I'm trying to do is understand what you're getting at. I'm into that whole interactive comment thing. Didn't mean to upset you.

I find their premise insulting--they seem to think that a woman needs a man (or, as Ed says, brothers or a strong father) to have an interest in debating issues.
My brothers are MUCH younger than me, so they don't apply. I babysat them. My father? Strong personality, but I'm definitely not close to him or much like him--I'm like my mother (who has no brothers and is interested in politics). I sure as shi'ite don't need a man to spark my interest in politics! If anything, it's the other way around. I have been married twice and in both cases neither of them had anywhere near my level of interest in politics (which made for great recruiting--ha!), so I ended up doing more poli-talk with my mother than anyone, and still do (except for on my blog, of course).

What I'd like to know is what kind of single women were they talking to. College students? Please. Ask single women who have lived a little.

I think you're exactly right, Ith. If they had gotten that response from single men (did they ask them?) the answer for WHY would have been different, exactly like Russ said.

At any rate, it's appalling that so many women would say "it's too confusing." Don't they even bother to watch the nightly news? (Which is a horrible way to get your politics, but it's better than nothing.) Like Daniel said in comment #3, I'm glad they don't vote. There oughta be a damn law. Dumbass? Sorry, no vote for you! ;-)

I worked with a woman recently who thought Socialists were called that because they were friendly and wanted everyone to get along. I kid you not. Oh, and she thought Germany was an ally in WWII. Do you know hard it was not to bust up laughing?

You know what's funny? They talk about single women voting Dem, married women voting GOP. And 70% of the single women in the survey are "too confused."

I don't think it's being single that makes one a Democrat, it's being clueless. ;-) (I mean really, being married makes you conservative? Bollocks.)

OMG! I think I'd have to slap that woman! I'm not sure I'd be able to restrain at least laughing, if not outright pointing and mocking! hahahahahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaa

Socialists! HA!

Beth, I hadn't looked at that way! I think I feel better now [snorfle] As for my former coworker, that was the least of what I wanted to slap her for. But I outlasted her -- she got pregnant and quit because she made too much money to qualify for single mom public aid money.