Clinton Trawling for Single Anxious Females

No, the other Clinton.

THE Single Anxious Female has taken over from the soccer mom of the 1990s and the stockcar-racing Nascar dad of the Bush era as the influential new voting block that could deliver victory to Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential election.

Many of the 18 to 44-year-old single women who watched Sex and the City, the television series, now want a woman in the White House. They are concerned about terrorism, angry about the Iraq war and worried about affordable health-care and education, according to the Clinton camp.

“I think the better way to define them is SAFs,” said Ann Lewis, a senior adviser to Clinton. “Single Anxious Females.”

Samantha Waterman, 41, a Clinton supporter and SAF from Los Angeles, believes the glamorous girlfriends in Sex and the City would be for Hillary.

But Bill's not getting out of the game either.

Despite his roguish past, Bill Clinton is helping to bring Single Anxious Females into his wife’s camp. “I like Bill,” said Waterman. “Honestly, I think more men than women got upset with him for fooling around. Maybe it’s a guilt complex. Women are better able to forgive him.”

Now bathing in the false appeal of identity politics, Team Hillary appears to be banking on the idea that American women don't want a candidate whose policies will enable them to thrive and succeed, but rather that supporting and bearing witness to Hillary's own success is enough of a win.

Maren Hesla, a director of Emily’s List, the campaigning group for women in politics, said single women’s “voting muscle” was growing rapidly in strength. “It’s a group we’ve been tracking with a lot of interest because they’re close to becoming the Democratic party base. They regard Hillary Clinton as a role model who can break through the glass ceiling for all of us.”
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Naomi Wolf, 44, the feminist writer and author of The End of America, said politicians had long been aware that single women could swing the election. ... Wolf compares Clinton to the aloof boss played by Sigourney Weaver in the film Working Girl, while the single female voters she needs to attract are more like bubbly, down-to-earth Melanie Griffith, her secretary.

How empowering.