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Hillary Bids to Add Women to Campaign
Sen. Hillary Clinton is launching a determined drive to enlist thousands of women to play roles in her campaign for the presidency. Clinton’s campaign "intends to use social networking tools and other Web technology to develop a thousands-strong Women’s Leadership Network, which would promote Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy nationwide and, by this fall, hold campaign events and take part in fund-raising,” the New York Times reports. The Clinton team is also planning to line up prominent female supporters to aid the campaign, including tennis champion Billy Jean King, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and Geraldine Ferraro, the vice-presidential nominee in 1984. According to the Times, Clinton advisers estimate that 60 percent of voters in the 2008 Democratic primary will be women, and the goal is to win at least twice as many women’s votes as any of her rivals. Political strategist Dick Morris firmly believes that women voters will play a pivotal role in the 2008 election. "I think that Hillary will likely win in 2008 because she can bring in millions of new voters, largely single women, who do not normally participate in elections,” he said in comments that appeared in the January edition of NewsMax Magazine.
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Single women account for 27 percent of the population, and include a growing number of single mothers. Morris noted that historically, single women have not voted in numbers proportionate to their size. They cast only 22 percent of the vote in 2004 and just 19 percent in 2000. Morris believes that is changing, however – and the main beneficiary will be Hillary Clinton.
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