On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Michael Hoover wrote:
> what ought to be troubling for dems is that voters with less than $30K/yr
> - majority of whom vote dem - comprised 34% of actual electorate in 1996,
> but only 23% in both 2000 & 2004, while percentage of voters with more
> than $75K/yr - majority of whom vote rep - comprised 18% in 1996, 28% in
> 2000, and 32% in 2004... mh
Those are interesting percentages, Michael. Can you tell from the numbers what this change in proportion resulted from? Michael <<<<<>>>>>
i've, admittedly, not looked at above as closely as i should have, but one consequence of clinton-era was that percentage with 75K+/yr increased from 10% of aggregate in early '90s to 15% by 2000...
home-purchasing (misnomer to call it ownership in most cases) rates increased from low 60% range to high 60% range during same period, while general assumption seems to be that rise reflects those towards lower end of income scale being able 'to get into' a house, i wonder how much of it is relatively young, relatively affluent types who did well during 90 buying their first homes, ain't too many 'starter' homes being built in orblando area, and rapidly rising property values have 'locked out' many people when it comes to trying to buy from existing housing stock... mh