Economics

Man Winning Most Married Moms Poised for White House

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In an ad backing Mitt Romney for president, a gold band on the main character’s left hand flashes before viewers as she laments a poor economic future for her two children should President Barack Obama win re-election.

That hint to the character’s marital status reveals one of the subsets of voters that both Obama and Romney, his presumptive Republican opponent, are targeting in the 2012 campaign: married women with children.