Wal-Mart Moms

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…The groups were made up of 10 women in each state who have shopped at Wal-Mart in the past month and have at least one child under 18 living at home, a swing-vote subgroup in past elections. The organizers, Public Opinion Strategies and Purple Strategies, invited journalists to observe. While the groups were too small to represent statistically significant samples, the responses of the women — who agreed to be identified by their first names only — offer insights into voters’ views at this stage of the race. Their comments come as a Quinnipiac University poll shows the economy and jobs are the top concern of Democrats and Republicans nationwide. One caution for Clinton, Newhouse said, is that the Democratic focus group was “less engaged.” “There wasn’t an embrace of what a Hillary Clinton presidency would look like and that it was good for them,” he said. Four of those 10 women said they are thinking of supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Half said they believed Sanders might defeat Clinton in the primary. Several of the women described Clinton with positive words such as “strong,” “lovable” and “intelligent.” But some of the women said they didn’t trust Clinton and don’t think they have much in common with her. They used words such as “shady” and “shifty” to describe her. Most said they did not feel a special affinity for her because she’s a woman. Asked what emotion they would feel if Clinton won the presidency, a couple of the women said hopeful and one said secure, while others said they would feel nervous, worried or unsettled. Sanders’ liabilities included women’s sense that they don’t know him well enough to render judgment, as well as concerns about his age…

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“Box store” is not a favored word among many Democratic progressives, but they are essential to broad swaths of the population who are still in the depths of the Great Recession.

The insights offered also included Republican perspectives, but bing more interested in the Democratic side of the discussion, my excerpts were focused Left. The full article and its depictions of the Right are welcomed fodder for this thread as well.

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