Posted on 11/02/2022 7:44:55 AM PDT by TigerClaws
White suburban women have shifted their support in large numbers from Democrats to Republicans in the final stretch of the midterm cycle, particularly as the crucial voting bloc has become increasingly concerned with the economy and inflation.
White women living in suburban areas, a key voting group that helped Democrats seize control of the House in the 2018 midterm elections, favor Republican candidates for Congress over Democrats by 15 percentage points, according to the most recent poll from the Wall Street Journal. The latest numbers reflect rising concerns about the economy and a fading importance on abortion, giving Republicans an advantage less than one week until Election Day.
“We’re talking about a collapse, if you will, in that group on the perceptions of the economy,” said Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, who conducted the poll with Democratic pollster John Anzalone.
More than half of suburban women (54%) say they think the country is already in a recession, and another 75% think the economy is headed in the wrong direction, according to the poll. Those are both increases from a similar poll conducted in August, in which 43% of white women said the economy had entered a recession and 59% said the economy was going in the wrong direction.
Rising costs emerged as the top issue motivating white suburban women to vote in the midterm elections, with 34% putting that as their No. 1 priority, followed by threats to democracy (28%) and abortion rights (28%), according to the poll. That could spell trouble for Democrats, who largely banked on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as a major motivator to increase voter turnout in their favor.
Although abortion has remained a top issue for the voting group, other concerns have largely eclipsed its momentum.
“It’s absolutely true that these women have shifted their gaze more on the economy than abortion,” said Democratic pollster Molly Murphy, who collaborated on the poll. “They think we’re in a recession. A majority are feeling financial strain in this economy.”
Of all white suburban women, 85% said they were “very” motivated to vote, making them among the most active groups expected to go to the polls next week.
The Wall Street Journal poll surveyed 1,500 registered voters between Oct. 22-26 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.7 percentage points.
Too bad they weren’t awake in 2020.
Soaring inflation, the price of gas, the cost of school clothes and groceries mean something to them regardless of what Jo Jo the Pedo clown is saying on the boob tube.
“Soccer moms are waking up.”
Could it be 8% inflation, empty shelves at the grocery store, rampant crime, and dwindling 401K accounts are worse than mean tweets?
oh, they were, but then they were offended by Trumps mean tweets.
I know if a few who simply won’t face reality.
When they cannot afford Starbucks and a manicure they are ready to vote for a Repub.
The minute they feel fat and happy again, they'll be back to opening the barn door.
But don’t these moms know that they are supposed to be outraged about abortion laws and all of that?
It’s interesting that we can see various groups of voters, who do not fall in line the way the liberals think they should. Suburban women are leaning more to the GOP, Latino voters are leaning more Republican, even black man are giving more support to Republicans.
But according to the liberals, all of these people are supposed to vote Democrat, because Republicans are racist, sexist, xenophobic, as per Hillary’s screed on the subject.
About time they figured this out.
So do I. I know a couple of ‘em who are solidly entrenched.
But they also watch things on TV like Real Housewives. I got stuck having lunch with them at work one day and that half hour felt more like half a day.
Never again.
Suburban women go to the grocery store. They fill up their vehicles with gas. They watch their husband’s paycheck not go as far as it did just two short years ago.
They are going to vote accordingly.
I'd move that to 2026. I suspect we have a deepening recession in 2023 that will influence them for 2024.
No probably soccer moms are racists. The Democrats said so themselves. sarcasm
The Republicans (especially the MAGA and America Firsters), on the other hand, are basically ignoring the abortion issue (or downplaying it as a largely foregone state issue) and hammering the economy and crime/immigration.
Sounds like they’ve “turned off NPR on the radio on the way to the supermarket” and talk about the kinds of stuff they talk about in right wing sewing circles. Stuff like the cost of gas, groceries and school clothes.
To that add - their children running the risk of genital mutilation without their knowledge.
The more election cycles I see and vote in, the more I’m convinced that a lot of people in this country shouldn’t be voting.
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