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'Security Moms' Are Back—and That's Bad News for Democrats
The Atlantic ^ | September 17, 2014 | Peter Beinart

Posted on 09/17/2014 4:54:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In a time of national anxiety, women voters are again turning to Republicans to protect the country.

Suddenly, it feels like 2002. Democrats got creamed in midterm elections that year because the women voters they had relied on throughout the Clinton years deserted them. In 2000, women favored Democratic congressional candidates by nine points. In 2002, that advantage disappeared entirely. The biggest reason: 9/11. In polls that year, according to Gallup, women consistently expressed more fear of terrorism that men. And that fear pushed them toward the GOP, which they trusted far more to keep the nation safe. As then-Senator Joe Biden declared after his party’s midterm shellacking, “soccer moms are security moms now.”

Unfortunately for President Obama, the security moms are back. And as a result, the levee Democrats were counting on to protect against a GOP hurricane is starting to crumble.

Although today’s terrorism scare doesn’t rival the aftermath of 9/11, the parallels to 2002 are striking nonetheless. As a result of the ISIS beheadings, the percentage of Americans “very worried” about terrorism has just hit a seven-year high. Once again, women are more afraid than men. According to a CNN poll last week, women are 18 points more likely to say they are “very” or “somewhat” worried that someone in their family will be the victim of terrorism. According to Pew, they are six points more likely to call terrorism “very important” to their vote this fall. In a recent piece about “Walmart moms” who participated in focus groups in Des Moines and Little Rock, my colleague Molly Ball noticed the trend: “The women in both groups expressed pervasive worry about violence .… This emphasis on security was a departure from previous groups, many of which I've covered in the past few years...

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TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: democrats; democratswaronwomen; girltalk; gop; isil; isis; nationalsecurity; obamadoctrine; obamaforeignpolicy; securitymoms; waronterror; wot

1 posted on 09/17/2014 4:54:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Unfortunately for Democrats, not all women just want abortions.


2 posted on 09/17/2014 4:58:22 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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What about the 40% who don’t have fathers for their kids? They too want security, but they seek it from their Uncle Sam.


3 posted on 09/17/2014 5:00:49 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We need elections decided by soccer-ity moms.


4 posted on 09/17/2014 5:07:11 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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It’s hard to see how Democrats change this between now and Election Day.

Soros counts the votes. I suspect strongly that the Exit Polls will be at strong variance with the announced election results, in Novembers 2014 and 2016.

5 posted on 09/17/2014 5:18:54 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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The return of the "Security Moms"? Where did you go? Security doesn't just start and stop and voting with your genitals never turns out well.

Thanks a lot for the last six years of this Marxist twaddle and 8 years of TheRapist from Little Rock.
6 posted on 09/17/2014 5:25:45 PM PDT by 98ZJ USMC
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s not only international security. With the recent Missouri riots, I said to a friend that domestic riots scare women too, and that the riot strategy would backfire on Dems.


7 posted on 09/17/2014 5:53:39 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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“When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride/he shouts to scare the monster/who will often turn aside./ But the she-bear thus accosted/rends the peasant tooth and nail/for the female of the species is more deadly than the male....’’


8 posted on 09/17/2014 5:56:13 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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Unfortunately for the country, these “women” never actually catch on that Democrats are baby-murdering Satanists. They haven’t caught on that “Obama” is a Muslim terrorist. They’re just a little doubtful about Democrats for the season.


9 posted on 09/17/2014 5:58:28 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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With 98% of the media, film-makers, musicians, novelists, television personnel, teachers, commentators and etc. on the Democrats’ side, how could they?


10 posted on 09/17/2014 6:04:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2Million USD for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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“Security Moms” are too late.

Their children will soon return from gov’t schools with TB, Scabies and God knows what else.

How secure will they feel when they realize the dems have waged biological warfare against them already?


11 posted on 09/17/2014 6:27:35 PM PDT by Mortrey (Kenites occupy the White House)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3204776/posts
Chris Hayes Dismisses Concerns Over Terrorist Border Infiltration As ‘Girl Talk’
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 8:55:44 PM


12 posted on 09/18/2014 10:50:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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