Walmart women are the soccer moms of 2008

Cable news bobble heads, political strategists and pollsters have found the ``soccer moms'' and ``Nascar dads'' of 2008, the blocs of swing voters with enough clout to turn the tide in the presidential race.

"Walmart women" the group that's up for grabs and could swing the election to Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain: women in their 50s and 60s without a college education.

``These women tend to be security oriented, in the broadest sense,'' said Geoffrey Garin, a Democratic pollster. ``They don't want a risky choice.'' Those attitudes present a challenge for Obama, he said. Because the same women are ``hard-pressed economically,'' however, Garin said they may be receptive to the Democrat's campaign. ``They're the ones managing the food budget, paying the health-care bills,'' Garin said.

Heading into the fall campaign, McCain held a 42-39 percent lead among non-college educated white woman, between 50 and 69 years old, in a Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll last month.