bitterlyclingin
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[The Obama/Axelrod re election campaign chose early to concentrate its re election efforts on African Americans, Hispanics, women, perverts and college educated librarians, considering working class whites lost to them in 2012. We, as a people, were witness to two segments of that campaign just this last week, the Gay Pride Gala at the White House where some not so notable events took place and the Friday Obama announcement creating 800,000 anchor babies from the years of illegal immigration that were blithely allowed to occur. The Democrats are hoping to create a seismic shift in the American ethos with this maneuver, getting America to vote more like a bannana republic or France instead of Germany.]
"In effect, the white working class vote is a barometer.
When this once reliably Democratic constituency moves away from the party by large margins, Democrats lose. In 1984, when Ronald Reagan crushed Walter Mondale, working-class whites backed Republican House candidates over Democrats by 57.1 to 41.9, a 15.2 point difference. In 1994, when Republicans swept to power in both the House and Senate, the Republican margin of support among working class white voters was 21.2 points, 60.6 to 39.4. In 2010, another Republican landslide year in House elections, the margin among whites without college degrees was 20.6 points, 55.3 to 34.7."
Canaries in the Coal Mine - NYTimes.com
"In effect, the white working class vote is a barometer.
When this once reliably Democratic constituency moves away from the party by large margins, Democrats lose. In 1984, when Ronald Reagan crushed Walter Mondale, working-class whites backed Republican House candidates over Democrats by 57.1 to 41.9, a 15.2 point difference. In 1994, when Republicans swept to power in both the House and Senate, the Republican margin of support among working class white voters was 21.2 points, 60.6 to 39.4. In 2010, another Republican landslide year in House elections, the margin among whites without college degrees was 20.6 points, 55.3 to 34.7."
Canaries in the Coal Mine - NYTimes.com