Work, both the regular job, plus some extra work, a bit of travel, and some volunteer campaign work have kept us too busy to blog. However...

we have been very aware of what we would have been writing about: women's voices, both those that have been silenced recently, and those that have not. [I'll try and pull together a list...]

But, in the meantime, a story by Cooper Munroe, from the Huffington Post, "Single Women Rock the Vote," is one of the best pieces of news regarding political trends that we've read. And, yes, we know this has already been a pretty good news week so far...

Read the entire story here.

But here are a few highlights:

After running the brilliant "Remember Your First Time" GOTV campaign aimed at single women , Women's Voices. Women Vote. is reporting that single women were the single largest change-voters in the country.

Yep, more than any other group, unmarried women voted for Democrats.

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CNN's exit polls show that 66% of unmarried women voted for Democrats, compared to 62 % of unmarried men; 49 % of married women; and 47 % of married men.

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I heard a story yesterday that got me choked up (this election was emotional, wasn't it?) about a MoveOn.org volunteer making GOTV calls on election night and a phone conversation he had with a single mom. The women had just returned from work, the polls were closing in 20 minutes and she was tired. The caller encouraged her to vote, and after a long pause she sighed and said she would because she knew the country needed a change. They hung up. Another volunteer asked, "Do you really think she will go vote?" and the man who had made the call said, "Yes, I think she will."

Later that night, the MoveOn caller got a message on his cell phone from the single mom. She wanted to him to know she took the kids to her polling place and voted. But mostly, she said, she wanted to thank him for encouraging her to vote, because she felt really good about it. Imagine how good she feels today.