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Parents & Presidential Politics
By Deirdre
Parents Have Power … Why Aren’t We Pushing the Candidates to Respond to Our Needs?
You’re a parent. So ask yourself: When you step into the voting booth on Nov. 2 will you be voting as a parent first – before party affiliation, race, gender or any other characteristic?
Parents have strong opinions about the upcoming election and the issues that affect them and their families.
Click here to read their comments and add your view.
A nationwide poll of parents during the 2000 presidential campaign revealed that more than half of those surveyed view being a mom or dad as a top consideration when voting. The only factor that ranked higher was where they lived.
“When you live in a certain community, you’re in an echo chamber,” says Ruth Wooden, former president of the National Parenting Association, which commissioned the poll. “I think parents also live in an echo chamber. Their lives are their children’s friends, their children’s school and the places where they are with their children.”
Exit polls from the 2000 presidential election revealed even more about parents as voters – they comprised about 50 percent of the presidential vote that year. “Other than the designation by sex, there wasn’t any other demographic that was higher,” notes Wooden, who is now president of the New York-based research organization Public Agenda.
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