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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
People talk about the working class like it is some kind of monolith.
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Because it is when looking at the big picture.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...ons/exit-polls
Democrats won the higher level of education folks, but there are far more Americans that don't have degrees who largely favoured Republican
Most Americans see themselves as moderate versus liberal or conservative, or independent versus Democrat or Republican.
Family income under 100k (60% of the population) favoured Republican while family income over 100K favoured Democrat
Folks who viewed the economy as great overwhelmingly sided with Democrats, while folks who viewed the economy as bad or poor sided with Republicans.
It wasn't always like this. Look at the numbers under Obama and they are very different. Note how strong Obama did with income under 100K compared to McCain.
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2008
Same thing with 2012. in fact it was even more pronounced, with Republicans being the party of elites handily being favoured by the elites over 100K, yet Obama won handily under. Democrats also scored higher with folks without a degree.
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2012
This clear paradigm change and lack of understanding its own base is precisely why Democrats failed. They choose to fight the wrong battles when it was always a class inequality issue. In the process they bled out costly votes from key demographics as they virtue signaled their way out of the graces of the working class while Trump and MAGA resonated with the working class, a class that was largely Democrat in the past.
If these stats aren't a wake up call to Democrats, I don't know what is.