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...Down a White Russian when Palin mentions the words “hockey” or “mom.” Drink two if she uses both together...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alcohol, Taxes, Alaska, Oh My! | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

Economics may also have something to do with it. Single motherhood has become increasingly common over the past 30 years, which may have affected the number of women who already have children who opt for abortions. "A single mom, if she's already got kids and she finds herself pregnant, just has fewer resources to raise another child," Jones says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abortion Rate Falls, But Not Equally for All Women | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

Klein's column concentrated on Palin as shoring up McCain's right-wing supporters. He missed a key point. She is a blue-collar mom, with a blue-collar hairdo, a blue-collar husband and a blue-collar family. That will have tremendous appeal to blue-collar voters. Jesse Ventura won this segment over when he became Governor of Minnesota, with many voters registering on election day. Attacking McCain for selecting Palin might turn out these voters on election day - for the Republicans. Don Debelak, MOUNDS VIEW, MINN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Introducing Sarah Palin | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

Ever since Palin took the stage, Obama's aides have seemed especially clueless about how to react to her and almost blind to her cultural power as a middle-class mom with five kids and an NRA card. They seemingly can't decide whether to attack her as a book-banning Bush-of-the-North extremist who brought partisanship and cronyism to small-town government, dismiss her as a provincial novice in over her head, brand her as a double-talker who opposes pork only when it isn't hers, or simply ignore her. According to a TIME poll, McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's the Fire? | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, McCain's surprising pick of a hockey-mom governor to share his ticket has grabbed maxed-out moms' attention. "They see their lives reflected in hers," says a top McCain strategist. "She is a person who leads a life they lead." In the TIME poll, 68% of older, non-college-educated women expressed a favorable opinion of her. "I do like Palin. I think she's going to win the election for McCain," says Kim Kalin, 49, a supervisor at a small manufacturing plant, who lives in Sterling Heights, Mich. But for other women, Palin has only added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maxed-Out Moms: The Battleground Voting Bloc | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

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