Debunking the myth of the security-mom vote

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

BOSTON — May I admit to being relieved that the spotlight is off the "security mom"? I was beginning to cringe every time she came on the screen, touted as the woman whose fear of terrorism would swing the election.

The image had evolved into a stereotype of a mother hiding in her cave beside her kids trying to decide which of the two males was more alpha.

Now the "security mom" is beginning to take her place as an urban — or should I say suburban? — legend. She's slowly receding into the ether of pollsterdom.

"The whole security mom thing is bogus," says pollster Anna Greenberg, a chief debunker. For openers, those legendary security moms, white married women with children under 18, are only 22 percent of all women. And only one in four puts terrorism at the top of her list. They are no more or less swayed by security than by their husbands.

More to the point, they aren't swinging. The married white women with young children are mostly and reliably conservative.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002057017_goodman08.html

[Warpy]

1. Bullshit. For women, security is economic, not military.

I'm surprised they've made this big a blunder, but then again, they're all macho men and closet cases who avoid real women like the plague. Also, they've managed to screw up the economy to such an extent that they have no hope of reaching any real "security mom."

This is just more mass media horseshit. Ignore it.

Or better yet, start selling economic security to moms. We know the neocon dimwits aren't about to provide any.

[crossroads]

2. Good point!!! n/t

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