{"id":624,"date":"2002-05-22T10:35:22","date_gmt":"2002-05-22T17:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/05\/reaching-out-to-dad\/"},"modified":"2002-05-22T10:35:22","modified_gmt":"2002-05-22T17:35:22","slug":"reaching-out-to-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/05\/22\/reaching-out-to-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching out to Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— Clinton pollster Mark Penn says the Dems need to reach out to dads to remain relevant (For Democrats, Key Voters May Be Married to Soccer Moms<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\nAccording to Mark Penn, whose polls formed the political road map of the Clinton White House, the Office Park Dads, or “OPDs,” are the husbands of those legendary swing voters of 1996, the Soccer Moms. And there is deep political disagreement in these mythic households of American suburbia. While the Democrats were carefully marketing themselves to the Moms in recent years, they lost the Dads, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a fact that men, especially, white men, were the voting bloc that went most strongly for Bush in 2000, with white women only slightly in favor of the President and ethnics of both sexes lining up for Gore (although ethnic men were less enthusiastic about him than ethnic women.) This was a reversal of the pattern in the Clinton elections were men were more evenly divided and women made the difference. But the question is: “what do the Dems have to do to appeal to dads?”

Ask a fathers’ rights activist and he’ll tell you that half of dads are divorced or separated from their wives, or will be someday. Democrats have pushed divorced dads into the poorhouse or the underground economy with child support obligations that are completely through the roof, and an enforcement system that mocks the civil liberties of all Americans much worse than anything John Ashcroft proposes for the war on terrorism. Democrats are largely responsible for a Congressional Resolution on Fathers’ Day urging dads to pay their child support and shut up about it, so they’ve got a lot to atone for. And wishing for something doesn’t make it so.

Source: Ben Domenich<\/a> and RoboPundit.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Clinton pollster Mark Penn says the Dems need to reach out to dads to remain relevant (For Democrats, Key Voters May Be Married to Soccer Moms) According to Mark Penn, whose polls formed the political road map of the Clinton White House, the Office Park Dads, or “OPDs,” are the husbands of those legendary … Continue reading “Reaching out to Dad”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-a4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}