Emily's List Makes a Push With Millennial Women for Hillary TIME

This new campaign for Hillary from Emily's List couldn't come soon enough! the organization is starting #Sheswithus: a movement of young women online talking about why they support Clinton. The first group of testimonials went live Thursday on Medium.

Reading TIME just now, it says that single women are such a powerful voting force that if they had voted in the 2014 midterms in the same numbers as they did in the 2012 presidential election, Democrats would today control both the Senate and the House.

Writer Rebecca Traister dug deeply into the political power of America's single women in her recent cover story The Single American Woman.

Single women are also becoming more and more powerful as a voting demographic. In 2012, unmarried women made up a remarkable 23 percent of the electorate. Almost a quarter of votes in the last presidential election were cast by women without spouses, up three points from just four years earlier. According to Page Gardner, founder of the Voter Participation Center, in the 2012 presidential election, unmarried women drove turnout in practically every demographic, making up “almost 40 percent of the African-American population, close to 30 percent of the Latino population, and about a third of all young voters.”

Perhaps more dramatically than any other voting block, unmarried women — comprising as they do other liberal-voting groups including young women and women of color — lean left. Way left. Single women voted for Barack Obama by a wide margin in 2012 — 67 to 31 percent — while married women (who tend to be older and whiter) voted for Romney. And unmarried women’s political leanings are not, as has been surmised in some quarters, attributable solely to racial diversity. According to polling firm Lake Research Partners, while white women as a whole voted for Romney over Obama, unmarried white women chose Obama over Romney by a margin of 49.4 percent to 38.9 percent. In 2013, columnist Jonathan Last wrote about a study of how women ages 25 to 30 voted in the 2000 election. “It turned out,” Last wrote in The Weekly Standard, “that the marriage rate for these women was a greater influence on vote choice than any other variable.”

Unmarried women and the 2016 elections AmericanWomen.org

An emerging wild card in the 2016 election is 1) how many angry white men committed to Bernie Sanders will switch to Donald Trump if Hillary Clinton is the candidate; and 2) how many Republican (in particular) women will vote for Hillary if Donald Trump is the Republican candidate. AmericanWomen.org queried 800 registered voters that included an oversample of 200 women ages 18 to 35, resulting in a total of 321 interviews among unmarried women and 296 interviews among millennial women.

Russell Simmons Endorses Hillary Clinton

Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons (pictured above with Lucy McIntosh) has endorsed his "longtime friend" Hillary Clinton while slamming "her rival, Bernie Sanders, as a candidate who is insensitive to African-Americans' hardships and is making promises he can't possible keep.

Simmons hit Sanders even harder, telling CNN that "He's insensitive to the plight of black people."

Sander is “insensitive in a number of ways, and I would get into it if we had time,” Simmons said. “But I think Sen. Clinton has been sensitive, supportive of the progressive agenda. She’s realistic in what she can get done. She’s able to beat the Republican candidate, and I think that Bernie Sanders would not be able to, or could lose, and I don’t wanna take that chance.” via Politico