Security Moms Tilting Toward President Bush ALICIA COLON acolon@nysun.com During the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns, the term “soccer moms” was used to describe predominantly white, suburban, middle- and upper-middle-class, college-educated women with children.The economy was a key factor in those elections, and those women tended to support the Democratic nominee. Post-9/11, those women are now being dubbed “security moms” and are leaning toward reelecting President Bush. Wednesday night’s final presidential debate covered the domestic issues, and the focus in the swing states is still the economy, but many women are finding that their priorities have changed dramatically since the...
