ABSTRACT
According to pollsters from both political parties, ‘security moms’ became an important and targetable voting bloc in the 2004 election. They were defined as middle income, middleaged mothers who were particularly concerned with the war in Iraq, domestic terrorism and their effects on families and children.14 In order to control for this effect in our regressions, we used the ‘security moms’ interaction variable and found it to be insignificant. Some analysts and pundits thought the effect of the security mom voting block was being overplayed. Specifically, they claimed that there were some distinctions in the way women with children and women without children vote, but that the distinctions primarily regard domestic social issues and not national defense.15
