Warthogg
11-29-2011, 01:11 PM
The Dims are abandoning the white working class voter.
Wart
NY Times: Democrats Not Interested in Voters Who Work, Target Losers Instead
There is a fascinating story in the New York Times by Thomas Edsall:
“The Future of the Obama Coalition.” Let me read this first paragraph to you.
“The Future of the Obama Coalition — For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters.
But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.”
” They are going after the welfare state full-fledged. They are going after the entitlement mentality people in this country full-fledged. They’re not making any pretenses.
Here’s a pull quote. “A top priority of the less affluent wing of today’s left alliance is the strengthening of the safety net, including health care, food stamps, infant nutrition and unemployment compensation. These voters generally take the brunt of recessions and are most in need of government assistance to survive. According to recent data from the Department of Agriculture, 45.8 million people, nearly 15 percent of the population, depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to meet their needs for food.”
And yet these same people’s kids are fed three meals a day at school.
http://conservativebyte.com/2011/11/ny-times-democrats-not-interested-in-voters-who-work-target-losers-instead/
Here is a link to he full article.
November 27, 2011, 11:34 pm
The Future of the Obama Coalition
By THOMAS B. EDSALL
For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.
All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition/
Wart
NY Times: Democrats Not Interested in Voters Who Work, Target Losers Instead
There is a fascinating story in the New York Times by Thomas Edsall:
“The Future of the Obama Coalition.” Let me read this first paragraph to you.
“The Future of the Obama Coalition — For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters.
But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.”
” They are going after the welfare state full-fledged. They are going after the entitlement mentality people in this country full-fledged. They’re not making any pretenses.
Here’s a pull quote. “A top priority of the less affluent wing of today’s left alliance is the strengthening of the safety net, including health care, food stamps, infant nutrition and unemployment compensation. These voters generally take the brunt of recessions and are most in need of government assistance to survive. According to recent data from the Department of Agriculture, 45.8 million people, nearly 15 percent of the population, depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to meet their needs for food.”
And yet these same people’s kids are fed three meals a day at school.
http://conservativebyte.com/2011/11/ny-times-democrats-not-interested-in-voters-who-work-target-losers-instead/
Here is a link to he full article.
November 27, 2011, 11:34 pm
The Future of the Obama Coalition
By THOMAS B. EDSALL
For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.
All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition/