Getting out the vote for single women

A pretty decent article by Katha Pollitt about getting out the single female vote. Her main point is that Dems best kiss single women's collective asses the way that the Reps flatter their sexist male voters. Fair point.
A couple of things:
She seems to start off with the common error that liberals often make, which is that in her laudable respect and understanding for the diversity of human beings, she strays a bit far from remembering that making connections between people is what creates an electorate. But Pollitt is a super-smart writer and she backs up her point by suggesting that it's more than surface differences, and suggests ways to bring them together.
I like this quote she has from an activist: "They don't believe politicians care about what they have to say," WVWV co-director Chris Desser told the Christian Science Monitor.
In interest of space, Pollitt just says, well this may be true without really going into why single women are ignored by politicians. Honestly, I think it's just so much ugly sexism. Women without men are seen as non-entities still. Every legal change that has improved the lives of single women had to be bundled up as good for married women before it was acceptable, birth control rights in particular.
Another problem is that single women are regarded as "pre-married" in the cultural lexicon. Think about it--if I describe a woman as a "single mother", do you picture an unmarried mother or a divorced mother? Probably the former, even though the latter is more common. From a politician's point of view, the single women out there are just going to be switching their allegiance to husbands soon enough, so cultivating their vote is irrelevant. You see this logic in entertainment marketing, where the majority of movies are geared towards men on the theory that women pretty much have to tag along to the movies that their husbands/boyfriends want to see.
Unfortunately, there is statistical evidence to back up this notion. That single women vote differently from married women in substantial numbers is the only reason they got noticed at all. I've seen alot of articles about the single woman vote and all of them make note of this, but nobody spends much time fussing over why.
It must be much more complicated than a bunch of progressive single women get married and are bullied by conservative husbands to changing over to the Republican party. No doubt there is some of that going on, but that's an effect that is going to fade over generations as more girls grow up with feminist convictions. I have plenty of female friends who fit the archetypal, Sex and the City mold, but none of them would buckle under, marry and vote with a Republican. In fact, we wear our liberalism on our sleeves and are causing the opposite effect--it's hard, in my town at least, for a single guy to vote Republican and get a date.
It's more complicated than single vs. married. Married women are probably older on average and therefore more conservative.
Still, it couldn't hurt for the Dems to push women's issues to the forefront. It would get out the single woman vote and more of the married woman vote. After all, married and single women still have more in common than not, anxieties about work, sexism, birth control, whatever.