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> To get a sense of how powerful the marriage effect is, not just for women but for men, too, look at the exit polls by marital status. Among non-married voters – people who are single and have never married, are living with a partner, or are divorced – Obama beat Romney 62-35. Among married voters Romney won the vote handily, 56-42.

I'd be interested in seeing these numbers adjusted for age, various SES indicators, etc.

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You can do all the crosstabs you want here: http://elections.reuters.com/#poll

The marriage gap is much bigger than the gender gap, age gap, and any socioeconomic gap. I think it falls right below the race gap in terms of size, and is probably on par with the religious/non-religious gap.

Agreed. Young people and single mothers are both very unlikely to be married and already known to hugely favor Democrats.

Interesting, my guess is this is the demographic the Obama campaign was courting with the Life of Julia [1] slide-show a while back-

http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/

But if everybody lives like Julia, who the hell will do the hard work anymore?

Are you saying that web design and starting your own small business (as did Julia in the ad) isn't hard work?

I think his comment was more along the lines of, "Who will dig the ditches?" I'm sure HN's response is, "Robots, if all goes as planned."

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