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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by tomjen3 on Monday December 24, 2012 @04:19AM (#4962352)
Agreed. Young people and single mothers are both very unlikely to be married and already known to hugely favor Democrats.
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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by mtoddh on Monday December 24, 2012 @06:40AM (#4962568)
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/

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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by dnu on Monday December 24, 2012 @06:52AM (#4962597)
But if everybody lives like Julia, who the hell will do the hard work anymore?
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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by throw_away on Monday December 24, 2012 @11:06AM (#4963192)
Are you saying that web design and starting your own small business (as did Julia in the ad) isn't hard work?
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Re:US Birth Rate Hits New Low – A Nation of Singles by boboblong on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @08:10AM (#4965912)
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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