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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His handlers need to sit him down and tell him that he isn’t as good of an off-the-cuff speaker as he thinks that he is. These gaffes are starting to pile up. No doubt, Biden has made some also, but no one’s noticed!
I know Karen Tumulty is a teevee talkin' head, and all, so she expects us to lap up her words like drops of honey. But honestly, doesn't the woman realize that "undecided" and "conflicted" mean the same thing in the context of potential voters trying to make up their minds?
It isn't only that these people are incredibly biased in favor of the Left, but many of them are dumber than a box of rocks despite what they would have us believe about their exalted pronouncements.
I don’t think he ever “had” them.
How will the “Lenin Libs” in newsrooms react when nobama loses? Will the “Marxist Moms” who support nobama stop shopping with “Wal-Mart Moms?” Can the “Soccer Moms” resist the call to become “Trotsky Tools?” Will the “security moms” rally again to meet the threat of the “soviet shrews”
Tune in next week when the “Dippy Ducks” in the Maoist media run out of stupid collectivist terms to assign to imaginary groups of Americans.
I think the Walmart moms are intelligent enough to recognize a real deal when they see one. Hussein’s real market is the Dollar Store crowd.
...And it certainly doesn't take an economics degree to figure out what will happen happen next.
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