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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFocus 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 Mondays focus group, conducted in Winter Park, Fla., many of the mothers said they were impressed by Obamas 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, Im 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 Obamas sharp attacks on his opponents positions had their intended effect.
He cant back anything up. Hes too all over the place, the woman said. Obama is very straightforward.
Yet another complained that Romneys answers seemed canned and said, The only thing I keep thinking about with Romney is a beauty pageant. This isnt 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
NYC Liberal
(20,453 posts)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)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)Where to eat for lunch, what color of shirt to wear etc.
Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)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.
WeekendWarrior
(1,437 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)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
skeewee08
(1,983 posts)lafde
(31 posts)Whats this...They ran out of soccer mom?
lets poll
target mom
sears mom
7-11 dads
lowes dads
burger kind mom
RandySF
(84,008 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)That's a good one
BeyondGeography
(41,084 posts)Mr. Sketchy Deal.
Cha
(318,868 posts)too! Rofl
Walmart moms! Wow! Not sure what that "drew blood" was about, though?
Thanks RandySF!
reformist2
(9,841 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)There is none.
Understand?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)-LOKI -BAD FOR YA
(308 posts)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