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RandySF

(84,008 posts)
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:32 AM Oct 2012

Focus Group: Obama drew blood among "Walmart moms" in Florida.

Of the 20 Walmart moms — defined as women voters with children under age 18 who have shopped at the retail chain at least once in the last month — six came into the debate undecided, while seven were leaning toward Obama and seven were leaning toward Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

After the debate, four of the women remained undecided, two went decisively to Romney and three said they will support Obama. Five leaned toward Romney and six leaned toward Obama. During a discussion, eight said Obama had won the debate, while one gave Romney the edge......

In Monday’s focus group, conducted in Winter Park, Fla., many of the mothers said they were impressed by Obama’s command of the issues. “He tended to give more concrete examples of past actions and how it relates to the future, how it kind of ties in to the plans he has,” one woman said. “With Romney, I’m not sure what his plan is. I want to understand it.”

Another woman said she was “unsettled” at the end of the debate about what a Romney presidency would look like, while another called him “hypocritical,” a sign perhaps that Obama’s sharp attacks on his opponent’s positions had their intended effect.
“He can’t back anything up. He’s too all over the place,” the woman said. “Obama is very straightforward.”

Yet another complained that Romney’s answers seemed canned and said, “The only thing I keep thinking about with Romney is a beauty pageant. This isn’t a beauty pageant. I need something real.”

Several women also gave Obama high marks for demonstrating his experience on the national security front. “He just showed me that he has a lot of experience in terms of foreign affairs than Mitt Romney,” one woman said.


http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/walmart-moms-give-obama-the-edge-in-debate-20121022

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Focus Group: Obama drew blood among "Walmart moms" in Florida. (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2012 OP
I'm sorry, but how the hell can anyone STILL be undecided with only 2 weeks left? NYC Liberal Oct 2012 #1
I get where you're coming from. I really do. Lone_Star_Dem Oct 2012 #5
Probably also have trouble making everyday decisions Floyd_Gondolli Oct 2012 #9
Dunno. Lone_Star_Dem Oct 2012 #11
They're either completely disengaged or they're complete morons. nt WeekendWarrior Oct 2012 #7
These are the types that spend two hours in the shoe department. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #12
Here's one way...... DeSwiss Oct 2012 #14
I love me some woman!!!!! n/t skeewee08 Oct 2012 #2
walmart mom!! lafde Oct 2012 #3
Hooters dads. RandySF Oct 2012 #4
Hooters dads Art_from_Ark Oct 2012 #16
Good article; the key quote BeyondGeography Oct 2012 #6
Yeah, Pres Obama would win "the beauty pageant" Cha Oct 2012 #8
It's obvious - Obama closed the deal tonight with the late-deciders. reformist2 Oct 2012 #10
“With Romney, I’m not sure what his plan is. I want to understand it.” Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #13
K & R Scurrilous Oct 2012 #15
all flash -LOKI -BAD FOR YA Oct 2012 #17

NYC Liberal

(20,453 posts)
1. I'm sorry, but how the hell can anyone STILL be undecided with only 2 weeks left?
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:37 AM
Oct 2012

I just don't understand it. The campaign has been in full swing for months now, so you'd have to be actively avoiding it to still not have decided.

Lone_Star_Dem

(28,158 posts)
5. I get where you're coming from. I really do.
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:46 AM
Oct 2012

Thing is, there are some folks out there who are not into politics. I get how they seem like freaks to us. We're into world events and politics 24/7. It's who we are.

These folks aren't like us though. They don't really care until an election year and then they procrastinate on learning anything about the candidates. That is up until they cast their vote at the last minute.

They do exist, I've met them in the wild before. Uninformed, confused and busy voters. Crazy as it seems, they are real. But, I doubt there's as many of them as they'd lead us to believe. I've only ran into a handful in all my lifetime of voter outreach.

 

Floyd_Gondolli

(1,277 posts)
9. Probably also have trouble making everyday decisions
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:50 AM
Oct 2012

Where to eat for lunch, what color of shirt to wear etc.

Lone_Star_Dem

(28,158 posts)
11. Dunno.
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:57 AM
Oct 2012

From the few I've encountered they're just preoccupied with their daily life.

I don't think they really contemplate how elections effect their daily lives, unless it's made really clear to them by a campaign.

That's just my personal take on the few I've dealt with, though.

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
14. Here's one way......
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 03:17 AM
Oct 2012
Meanwhile, the world outside Burt's or Winchester, Virginia doesn't exist. Not really. If you spend your days at a soul-numbing repetitious job with a brain simmering in anti- depressants, a belly stuffed with high fat, supercarb comfort food, and evenings half drunk or recovering on the couch from work . . . well . . . when the heck are you supposed to find time or mind to grasp the implications of global warming even as you contemplate being one payday ahead of homelessness? A while back I watched this bar full of people stare at a game of Afghani dead goat polo in silent, rapt attention. If that isn't brain dead I don't know what is.

The relentless autocratic, blue collar American workplace has ground my people down, smashed 'em right into the couch. There they are force-fed the huckster's hologram of "personal freedom" in advertisements for off road vehicles. Getting a lousy public education, then being played against your fellow workers in Darwinian fashion by the free market economy does not make for optimism or open mindedness. It makes for a kind of bleak meanness nobody is openly talking about in the American political dialogue today.

I seem to remember a time when we weren't so mean, back when most people in Burt's believed in the American dream. A few still do, or at least pay lip service to it, though now they have been reduced to being grateful for having a job, any job. When you're easily replaced and are devalued you no longer pretend to have a choice. To feed your family you work harder and for less and without benefits. You eat shit and you ask for seconds.

Eating shit eventually makes you bitter and resentful of anyone who does not appear to be eating their share of shit. So you feel that anyone else who gets a break, especially a government-assisted leg up is cheating you. From resentment it is only a short skip to hatred and the illogical behavior that comes with hatred. Like voting Republican against your own best interests.

~Joe Bageant, Let's Drink To The Slobbering Classes

R.I.P. - Joe Bageant ~ 1946-2011

lafde

(31 posts)
3. walmart mom!!
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:40 AM
Oct 2012

Whats this...They ran out of soccer mom?

lets poll

target mom
sears mom
7-11 dads
lowes dads
burger kind mom


BeyondGeography

(41,084 posts)
6. Good article; the key quote
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:48 AM
Oct 2012
In Monday’s focus group, conducted in Winter Park, Fla., many of the mothers said they were impressed by Obama’s command of the issues.  “He tended to give more concrete examples of past actions and how it relates to the future, how it kind of ties in to the plans he has,” one woman said. “With Romney, I’m not sure what his plan is. I want to understand it.”


Mr. Sketchy Deal.

Cha

(318,868 posts)
8. Yeah, Pres Obama would win "the beauty pageant"
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 12:50 AM
Oct 2012

too! Rofl

Walmart moms! Wow! Not sure what that "drew blood" was about, though?

Thanks RandySF!

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
13. “With Romney, I’m not sure what his plan is. I want to understand it.”
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 02:38 AM
Oct 2012

There is none.

Understand?

-LOKI -BAD FOR YA

(308 posts)
17. all flash
Tue Oct 23, 2012, 10:18 AM
Oct 2012

no matter what romney says 45 percent will vote for mitt ,this puts us into a dangerous place the fact we have to depend on a small percent of the population .lucky mitt was right 47 percent will never vote for him .people are taking action now.voting i feel we are strong nc,nv and ia

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