[lbo-talk] Why do people vote against their interests? P.J.O'Rourke explains

[Carrol Cox]

Another way of grasping this is that if left supporters of the DP (not
the DP, which will oppose or sabotage this) concentrated on getting out
the vote among people who already favor the DP, it wouldn't be necessary
to switch any votes from the RP. In electoral pseudo-politics as well as
in politics, rallying and activating one's friends must be at the core
of political work.

Carrol

Curtiss Leung wrote:
> 
> Is there anything on participation rates for each bracket, i.e. of
> all eligible voters in each income bracket, what percentage actually
> made it to the polls?
> 
> Curtiss
> 
> > While there are some poorer white men who vote Rep for cultural
> > reasons, we shouldn't forget that votes do broadly correlate with
> > income. Here's the breakdown from the 2000 election:
> >
> >                     Gore      Bush     Buchanan    Nader
> > <15,000              57%       37%        1%        4%
> > 15,000-30,000        54%       41%        1%        3%
> > 30,000-50,000        49%       48%        0%        2%
> > 50,000-75,000        46%       51%        0%        2%
> > 75,000-100,000       45%       52%        0%        2%
> > 100,000+             43%       54%        0%        2%
> 
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