care about. inflation and economy, but i will make sure these things are cared about as well. this morning we had you on america s newsroom talking about soccer moms. you saw that big swing of independent women. 17 points from august with the democrats and then swung over to the republicans by 7 points by mid september. i thought that was about the schools and how expensive everything was. the cost of gas went up. afford ability was a big issue. there is something going on. republicans did not have a hold to independent voters like they thought they would. it that a hangover from 2020? was abortion a bigger issue than we realized? new hampshire 70-30 pro-choice. jessica, welcome back to the
and sought after voting blocks in the country. this election cycle they appear to lean toward the republicans. martha maccallum is here to talk about that. never dismiss soccer moms. not nice to dismiss them. bill: part of what got our attention on this topic was a week ago the wall street journal came out with a poll that suggested that i believe i have the numbers right, in august they were 13% on the democratic team and by mid october they had moved into 13 or 15 points toward republicans there about. is that about right? a 27-point move toward the right by white suburban women in the wall street journal poll. a new york times today says it s broader than that. they talked to women of all different diverse backgrounds. close to the city and further out from the city and tried to get a sense of what is on their minds. interesting when you look back at the soccer moms in 1996 who voted for bill clinton, the things that they wanted that
that. before x essential, i guess be careful what you wish for, martha, because when you put your money in a certain direction, it will likely lead to success. you are making some points earlier that i thought were so informative about that white suburban female vote that has sort of swung the 27 points towards the right since the summer. you are making an analogy of 1996, some commonalities they feel. it s interesting. when you go back to 1996, and i remember the soccer moms about time. and you also had the security moms post 9/11. this has always been a really interesting group to watch, but when you look at 1996, the things that were on their minds were when all of the exit polls came back in, it was that they supported president clinton s desire to crackdown on crime, and also a very specific item about wanting more reading
ground, but your parents want, and pants can be a powerful mobilizing group of constituents. you can remember back after 9/11, in the midterms there, the last time a sitting presidents party one seats in 2002, it was security mobs. soccer moms. now, republicans are talking about parental rights. what they have been laying this foundation for years. and in the pandemic, they saw an opportunity with the pandemic and school closings and the anti vax movement, this idea that parents not having control over their children, republicans use that as to amplify the culture war issue. and it s been working for them. democrats had not had a sufficient response to this because they ve been behind the eight ball as far as organizations. dead there are parents that are trying to push back against this. i live in northern virginia and northern virginia has been the
victory of any significant scope on tuesday, i think what we need to do is pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through, perhaps, the end of january, allowing republicans to move in and pass their own spending bill without all the democratic pork added into it. maria: i want to get your take on the fbi, because i know that the whistleblowers who have gone to jim jordan on the house side and, of course, ron johnson and chuck brassily as well, i want the get your take on what is going on in terms of the plan to take politics out of the fbi. whistleblowers have a long list of issues from the russia collusion hoax, pursuing that even with no evidence, to leadership abusing the law enforcement authority for political reasons, manipulating domestic violence extremism statistics, going after soccer moms. what are you going to do to take politics out of the fbi? i think the very first thing we need to do is hold a series of hearings and actually demand