Before every presidential election, we chew over the question of whether this will be a foreign policy or a domestic election. Will we be talking about "security moms" or "soccer moms"? 2016 is going to be a security election, but not in the traditional war/peace sense. Instead, we need to think of "security" in broader terms. Economic Security. Security from Terrorism. Security in Leadership. At the end of the day, to paraphrase a quote from Austan Goolsbee, a University of Chicago professor and former Obama economic advisor, people just want to know they are going to be OK. Back in the fall of 2014 I sat in a number of focus groups comprised of so-called "Walmart Moms": women with children 18 or younger at home and who shopped at Walmart at least once in the past month. During one of those sessions, a woman captured this "new kind of security" argument when she bemoaned the current state of the country. "Bad things," she said, "are becoming familiar." As I wrote back in September, the women in these groups didn't compartmentalize
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