[lbo-talk] Pollster: Republicans Are Now the Party of the Working Class

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

At 5:15 pm -0800 5/11/04, mike larkin wrote:
>thrust of the post-mortem this morning conducted by
>Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, who worked for the
>Kerry/Edwards campaign...
># In a startling turnaround among the electorate, the
>more educated voters were in 2004, the more often they
>voted Democratic, while the less educated (white)
>voters went strongly for Bush. Republicans are now the
>party of the working class...."

This guy is just looking for any excuse, however unfounded, to shift 
further right. Jump on him!

Voters from households with a union member (the narrower working 
class) made up 24% of voters, and voted Kerry 59/40. The 45% with 
income under 50k voted Kerry 55/44. And if the exit polls have a 3-4% 
margin of error, there's nothing to choose between them when it comes 
to education level from no HS to college grad; only at the post-grad 
level does it count -- and this varies by region, whereas the union 
membership and income is consistent across region.

kj khoo