Ford jolts auto industry with 11 billion investment in electric vehicles. But there was a new wrinkle: the highly committed in all religious traditions were also more conservative on social issues, potentially link- ing them together in opposition to a similar combination of less committed and more liberal members.Larry': Inside three Elder voting blocs longtime fans, new converts, evangelicals. RELIGIOUS VOTING BLOCS IN THE 1992 ELECTION 309 by short-term forces.
Then there is the Religious Left, which makes up 12.7 percent of the voting-age population.Abstract: Candidates face a trade-off in the general election between taking a more moderate position that appeals to swing voters and a more-extreme position.Becca: Where do we start? Months ago, we decided to have this meeting where everyone came to it with monoliths. Voters in this bloc, which according to the survey includes Pastors Rick Warren, Joel Osteen and Joel Hunter, prefer McCain over Obama by a 20 percentage point margin (47 percent to 27 percent). She said it would help get me in the mood for the story she wanted to tell.Google Launches Stadia Gaming Platform. Recently our producer Becca Bressler told me to call her up and somewhat mysteriously bring orange slices. Lulu: Hello, this is Radiolab.
What I learned is that, she was born in the run up to the 1996 presidential election. How did she become a monolith? I started poking around. She explains that the list of companions in Junipers game layer remind her of a kharass, a group of people linked by a wampeter (a sort of purpose/theme). 1 Synopsis 2 Featured characters 3 Quotes 4 Notes 4.1 Continuity notes 4.2 Real-world references Fenn explains whats on her mind as she, Juniper, and Amaryllis return to their room in Barren Jewel. Of course, I've heard of the phrase, I play soccer, I have a mom, but I got curious about where she came from.Amaryllis gets a tattoo. At some point, the idea of soccer moms came up.
The women who had made a big difference in 92, less likely to vote.Becca: In 1996, the Clinton campaign needed to convince those women to come back to Clinton. I should say, I learned this story from these two women who worked on Bill Clinton's campaign that year.Ann: I joined formally around Labor Day 1995.Becca: Ann Lewis, communications director.Celinda: I was brought on to do some special project, including looking at women voters.Becca: Clinton had won his first term in large part thanks to women voters.Ann: In 94, drop off. Candidates and elected officials are presented with a direct policy choice by the Voting Bloc and they can either risk losing or gaining the bloc of votes based on their actions on a specific issue.Becca: Hi, Ann. The soccer mom was this little slice of voters who helped hand him the election and completely changed the way political campaigns did what they do from that point forward.A Voting Bloc is way to actively and strategically intervene in an election. He's the incumbent against Bob Dole, the Republican candidate.
Women on the other hand, 55% of women voted for Clinton and only 38% of women voted for Bob Dole. The Clinton campaign started rolling out policies about tobacco advertising.Bill Clinton: We fought to protect our children from the harmful effects of tobacco advertising aimed at them.Newscaster: US President Bill Clinton has unveiled a program designed to keep guns out of the hands of young people.Bill: If it means the teenagers will stop killing each other over designer jackets, then our public schools should be able to require their students to wear school uniforms.Becca: School uniforms, sometimes just little things that the soccer moms cared about.Newscaster: Polls show most of these women leaning towards Clinton.Newscaster: Among them, Bill Clinton has a stunning 28 point lead over Bob Dole.Becca: On November 5th 1996, Clinton won.Becca: In part, because he walked down the soccer mom vote.Celinda: He won that yes, he won the soccer mom and it was key to his victory, actually.Becca: Men split their vote for Dole and Clinton. Get 10 soccer moms in a room.Becca: Finding out what they wanted and then promising to give it to them. Kelly Anne, tell me what is a soccer mom.Kelly: The so-called soccer moms are these predominantly white women who live in the suburbs.Newscaster: They are the most hotly pursued voters in this election.Becca: The soccer mom became this political force to be reckoned with.Newscaster: They may sit on the sidelines at soccer games, but these women are front and center in this year's presidential campaign.Becca: A force that Ann and Celinda started to harness.Celinda: Recruit them and talk to them.
The Nascar Dads, Joe Six Pack, The Walmart Moms and these voting blocks just kept getting smaller and smaller.Celinda: Campaigns now have access to so much more information. It became the security moms after 911. Over the years who this target was, has mutated. What pollsters and strategists would realize over the years is that targeting their campaign messages to ever finer and more specific groups, it works.
I just really loved how incredibly specific this map was.Becca: Hi, Jay. Like in Colorado, you had the newly mortgages, who were people who just bought a house, there were white women of Vegas, lunch pail Catholics, skittish soldiers, battleship makers, Cuban millennials. You could move your cursor across different swing states, and it would highlight these very specific cutesy named groups of voters. In 2016, they went looking for the new iteration of the soccer mom.
They shop at Trader Joe's, they listen to NPR, they may have things in their home that they live, laugh, love, which is so oddly specific.Tobin: A thing that's tripping them up this year is that they are very conflicted about Donald Trump. According to the political strategist who told us about them, they have some preferences that at least I might stereotype as qualities of liberals. No, these are Republican voters specifically in Texas.
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