Except it leaves the mystery of (1) why anyone in the lower 90% of income votes for Bush and (2) why people vote at all. I mean, what motivates them, not 'what's the point?' Because a large percent--often a majority--don't vote. So voting as an act needs to have some more motivation than the empty exhortations 'don't forget to vote!' we get around election time. I still think Frank is essentially right when he says that the Democrats could do a lot better among the U.S. working class if they weren't Republicans light on economic issues. For example, they could actually make a case for why the estate tax is a good thing, and maybe should be higher, say, confiscatory. Let's have a public debate about whether the children of the rich should be automatically rich or whether they should have to get a job. But that's against most politicians' personal interests, so we'll never find out if it's against their political interests.
Jenny Brown