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I am 'senior citizen, my daughter is a 'stay-at-home soccer mom' (her hubby, a U.S,Navy pilot, is a 'soccer dad', my daughters-in-law are stay at home moms....and we're all republicans.
Years ago, when ERA was making their last big push, I was our county Anti-ERA chairman (we beat them into the brush) -
The republicans are (mostly) all out at work between 8 am and 7pm.
That statement sounds like a "liberated" woman who beleives that if you are not working an outside job, you are a slacker???
Being a stay-at-home mom is one of the most difficult JOBS there is, and rewarding - and the commitment to raise ones own children, even if it means less material things, is commendable...they are, in my opinion, not slacking off because they don't traipse their little ones to day-care warehouses so they can keep up with the Jones and have 'status' in societys eyes. (There are many moms who have no choice, many more who just think they don't, and many who 'get it' and it has been my observation that those who would rather raise their own children full time, tend to be republican.)
I had the impression that stay-at-home moms trended towards republican women who value children more and who take being a full time parent as a serious commitment, not needing an outside job to feel validated...and also don't put monetary value over children and family???
Is there evidence otherwise?
I guess you missed the part where I said I wasn't a statistican and I couldn't prove my assertions, or did you get all red in the face that you stopped reading before you got there?
However, when it comes to democratic voting blocs, two of the biggest are the soccer mom (the "remodeled feminist")and the FDR democrat, who has both an emotional (i.e they rememeber the Great Depression and thought FDR a Messiah, and his socialist programs just the greatest thing ever)and a financial (i.e. they get more money from Social Security, and Medicare benefits than they ever paid into either system, or even have a legitimate right to claim wiht a straight face) attachment to the government teat.
Certainly a good number of males aged, say 25-50, (whom we might assume would be mostly republicans voters because of economic and war issues, for the purposes of this argument)are not at home to answer the phone for this kind of stuff, nor do they have the time (for the record, I'm a 40 year old man, a professional, who's breaking his a** working 70 hour weeks so that his parent's generation can rob him blind in their old age).
Quite frankly, other than the two groups we've discussed and the welfare queens, who else would you assume is at home to answer a load of fool poll questions during daylight hours?
Just because what I have described might not apply TO YOU doesn't mean it doesn't apply at all. And once again, when I made those assertions it was with the disclaimer that I was no expert. I expressed an OPINION. Feel free to disagree with my opinion, but please read it and get a handle on what I'm trying to say before you unload on me.
A "soccer mom" is a euphemism. These were the ladies who were ensnared by feminism and did so much damage with their votes back in the early nineties. They elected the Patty Murray's (who claimed to be one of them) and the Boxer's of the world.
"Stay at home" moms are the first line of defense against the ugliness and filth being taught to innocent children. There is a huge difference.