[lbo-talk] Why the Dems lost the White Working Class

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 21 13:31:33 PDT 2008


On Oct 21, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:


> But this was addressed directly in a post from Lane Kenworthy's blog
> that was posted to LBO-talk by Shane Taylor:
>
> http://lanekenworthy.net/2007/12/17/how-the-democrats-lost-their-
> class/
>
> and the gist of the answer is: Bartels confined himself to
> presidential voting patterns, which have problems. Whereas
> Kenworthy and crew looked at which party self-identification, which
> is a different dataset

Votes matter. Party ID is a statement. I don't see why party ID is more important.

Doug



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