Posted on 09/09/2008 9:40:48 PM PDT by Libloather
Can Obama Win Back Wal-Mart Moms?
Tuesday, Sep. 09, 2008
By KAREN TUMULTY / WASHINGTON
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The women that pollsters are watching most closely this year are different in some ways from their "soccer mom" and "security mom" sisters of those earlier election cycles. For one thing, they are slightly older than soccer moms (in their 40s and 50s) and are juggling another set of problems how to pay for college for their kids, and how to take care of their elderly parents. They are also less upscale. Lacking college degrees, they are more likely to be feeling the brunt of an array of economic problems that now includes high energy prices, rising unemployment, soaring health-care costs and housing foreclosures.
Democratic pollster Celinda Lake calls them "Wal-Mart moms, or Wal-Mart grandmas" and says they are not so much undecided as conflicted in making their choice this year. Geoff Garin, a Democratic pollster who served as chief strategist of Hillary Clinton's campaign in its final days, agrees. "Frankly, it's because they are conflicted on Obama," he says. "They'd like to vote for a Democrat, but they're not sure Obama is the one."
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But just in case they don't, Obama has become increasingly aggressive in challenging the GOP ticket's efforts to co-opt his mantra of change. "You can't just re-create yourself," the Democratic nominee said Monday. "You can't just reinvent yourself. The American people aren't stupid." But if he is going to win over the Wal-Mart moms, Obama is also going to have to make a stronger case for himself.
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Is this the new bumper sticker? I’ll take two.
“slightly older than soccer moms (in their 40s and 50s)”
Yeah, right. The huge surge in women for McCain has come from the 18-49 y.o. age group. That’s the same ole “security” moms and all that other load of BS. But it’s not just from that age group. It’s across the board. These idiots just can’t bring themselves to say it, can they? The demographic they are trying so hard to “define” and label and not-so-subtly humiliate is really every single American woman that isn’t a has-been femiNazi or African American! These labels by the media: “evangelical Christian,” “Wal-Mart Mom,” etc., are meant to humiliate us into stepping outside the label. Who wants to be a “Wal-Mart Mom”? Even those dwindling numbers that shop at Wal-Mart don’t want to be labeled Wal-Mart shoppers. All my life I thought I was a Christian. Then the news media let me know I was an “evangelical” Christian, in the most disdainful of ways.
Whatever, baby. Republican women know who they are.
The hosed it with us NASCAR Dad’s last cycle, so they had to move on to some other demographic.
Now, let's be fair; they give Republicans advice, too. Like they told McCain to pick Lieberman as VP; or to talk more about amnesty; or any one of a number of pieces of advice that would have sunk the ship. Sure, they're full of advice for us.
Don’t forget their advice to dump Palin. Good thinkin’!
I forgot that one - it seems like a long time ago they were trying to get us to Eagleton Gov. Palin. Yup; they give us lots of advice.
Now that is funny
He calls one woman reporter 'sweetie'; flips off Mrs. Clinton in a debate; the Palin pig analogy; creating a 'walmart ma/grandma category' .... seems like Mr. Obama is running on all 8 cylinders - if his intent was to be a 'clown' and not to win an election ...
And the fish is half off too!
And the fish is half off too!
LOL! He’d be better than Obama.
Don't worry about it goodolemr, they are all telling him he has to attack Palin harder.
“They are also less upscale. Lacking college degrees, they are more likely to be feeling the brunt of an array of economic problems ...”
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Typical Liberal elitist BS. She might as well have added: “...since they spend all their time clinging to their guns and religion, they’re really not informed enought to vote. Smart people always vote for Democrats.”
So, if you don’t vote for Obama, you’re a ignorant, racist redneck.
Journalists are mostly idiots who couldn’t make it through business school and loved smoking dope while they talked about changing the world someday.
bttt
Don’t laugh, there could be lipstick cases left all over the place after a Obama appearance.
That pig comment might really really come back to haunt Obama.
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