Word: suburbanitis
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Four years ago, the media were filled with talk of the Soccer Moms--well-off suburban swing voters who were said to hold the key to the election. Reality is never quite so simple. There was more than one undecided demographic group in the country then, and there's more than one now. Here are five distinct groups that will decide this election...
...claim for the support of the people is anything more than rhetoric, it can be a gutsy one. Because these people are not those suburban independent voters, whom the campaigns are wooing somewhere between the private school door, the movie theater, and the gas tank of the SUV. These people are more likely to be the ones pumping that gas, taking the ticket, or mopping the schoolroom floor...
Despite positioning themselves as men of "the people," Bush and Gore are ignoring the poor in favor of the shoppers at the suburban strip malls where they work and the commuters at the rail station where they make change. Gore has at least been to some of these places, on his marathon Labor Day tour, but no one since President Clinton took his poverty tour last year has focused on them. Since then, Evelyn Nieves recently wrote in the New York Times, "the poor have coped alone...
...know the answer to that question. The baby boomers, who helped divorce become mainstream, were the products of exactly the kind of marriages the anti-divorcers approve of--the child-centered unions of the l950s, when parents, especially Mom, sacrificed themselves on the altar of family values and suburban respectability. To today's anti-divorcers those may seem like "good enough" marriages--husband and wife rubbing along for the sake of the children. The kids who lived with the silence and contempt said no thank...
Four years ago, the media were filled with talk of the Soccer Moms - well-off suburban swing voters who were said to hold the key to the election. Reality is never quite so simple. There was more than one undecided demographic group in the country then, and there's more than one now. Here are five distinct groups that will decide this election...