ROCHESTER, Mich. — As she neared the end of a long Senate campaign, Rep. Elissa Slotkin told a room full of supporters gathered to hear from her and leaders of the nation’s largest reproductive rights groups that the “secret women’s vote” could be key to her winning a high-profile Senate race.
“I feel pretty good, and it’s deeply connected to this issue and to women,” she told the crowd. “We have going on right now in the state of Michigan — what I call the secret women’s vote. We have women in red areas who are not telling their husbands how they vote, who are not talking about it with their friends and family, but are going to vote for [the] Democratic ticket.”
She pointed to women putting Post-it notes or posters in women’s restrooms reminding them that their vote was secret and encouraging them to vote Democratic, prompting one woman in the audience to say she brought them to the community center where Slotkin was campaigning on Oct.27. She also said women will quietly tell her while she’s knocking on doors that they support her.
