'Waitress Moms,' 'Walmart Moms' and Undecided Voters
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2012
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
With the campaign down to a few precious days, the few undecided voters are said to be women. Who are they? Where do they live? Whatever happened to "soccer moms?"
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.4 | Waitress moms, Walmart moms, and undecided voters. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello again, I'm Mormon-Aulny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:20.1 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:22.9 | The president and Mitt Romney are dashing from swing state to swing state |
| 0:26.6 | in pursuit of this year's last undecided voters. |
| 0:29.9 | Polls show they are women, especially white, non-college-educated, working women, |
| 0:35.2 | not the soccer moms of the prosperous 1990s. Obama accuses Romney of conducting a war on women, not the soccer moms of the prosperous 1990s. |
| 0:38.3 | Obama accuses Romney of conducting a war on women, but they've been moving in Romney's direction since after the first debate. |
| 0:45.4 | Are they more concerned about abortion and contraception, or the economy? |
| 0:49.6 | How does micro-targeting help the candidate speak to the different needs of different women? |
| 0:55.2 | First, here's the news. |
| 1:01.1 | Support for To the Point comes from the members of KCRW and from the Public Radio International Program Fund. |
| 1:07.9 | Hello again, I'm Arun-A-Lany, back with To The Point. |
| 1:10.3 | Will the campaign down to a few |
| 1:12.0 | precious days, the last few undecided voters are said to be women. We'll find out who they are, |
| 1:17.7 | where they live, and how neatly they do or don't fit into categories like waitress moms and |
| 1:23.2 | Walmart moms. Whatever happened to soccer moms? On reporter's notebook, why are our traditional |
| 1:28.5 | auto dealers suing electric carmaker Tesla just for opening its own stores? First, this news update. |
| 1:34.4 | The Commerce Department today released one of the last important sources of economic data before |
| 1:38.4 | the November election. It shows an increasing growth rate with different degrees of optimism |
| 1:43.1 | from consumers and business. |
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