Posted on 05/05/2009 6:18:04 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama bites rich hands that fed him By: Jeanne Cummings May 5, 2009 08:01 PM EST
For a politician who sometimes got accused of playing class warfare, candidate Barack Obama sure made a lot of well-to-do friends during the 2008 campaign.
The big question now is whether President Barack Obama can keep them.
One striking, if little-noted, trend of the past presidential election was that Obama won the affluent vote — those making more than $200,000 annually — with 52 percent. Moving down the income scale a bit, he and John McCain essentially tied among those making between $100,000 and $200,000.
In 2008, exit polls showed the percentage of voters earning more than $100,000 had jumped to a historic high of 26 percent, compared with just 9 percent in 1996. Obama’s strong showing among this bloc reversed a decades-old pattern in which the more money someone made, the more likely he or she was to vote Republican.
But these voters are not being repaid for their support — more like the other way around.
Beyond the obviously wealthy voters, people who in many places are no more than upper middle class find themselves targeted to pay for a wide range of Obama policies aimed at leveling the economic playing field.
“The notion that people who are in those income brackets are Republican isn’t true anymore,” said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
“In part,” he added, “that’s because of the way they made their money” — in high-tech, legal or service professions that skew liberal, rather than through traditional Main Street businesses that skew conservative.
Obama’s gamble that he can ask affluent progressives to pay more without complaint has been made riskier by the collapse of home prices and stock portfolios.
Uh maybe he is socialist after all............
I kept thinking about those idiots in the big houses who thought they were so cool voting for him
Are liberal professions wall street, banking, fannie, freddie and terrorist countries? Those were obama's campaign contributors.
New York Jews are turning against 0 in droves. They do not like his spending policies and willsoon begin to feel the bite of his tax policies. Blue Dog liberals will bite the hand that petted them with sweet words.
Yeah. The same ones that flee to conservative neighborhoods and schools when reality bites
I think Obama’s salary should be cut. After all he gets everything free. In his case this is the ultimate welfare king and queen.
So do I. And if I see them sitting on the curb with their furniture piled around them I’ll be hard pressed to shed a tear. It’s the hard working men and women who understand what his policies will do and are helpless against them that I will cry for.
But, but, but...
We’ve been told by the left that the Republican Party is the party of the rich/!?!?!
The really rich won’t care... as long as they are still rich. It is those of us TRYING to get rich who will be taxed back into poverty.
Wishful thinking. I stay away from it, myself.
“One striking, if little-noted, trend of the past presidential election was that Obama won the affluent vote — those making more than $200,000 annually — with 52 percent. Moving down the income scale a bit, he and John McCain essentially tied among those making between $100,000 and $200,000.”
Soooo, they thought it was a good idea to spread the wealth until they had to actually spread it? Or did they think that the rule would apply to everyone but them?
The NY Jews may be “turning against” Zero in droves by not liking him or his policies - BUT that doesn’t mean they’ll vote Republican.
Their liberalness is simply too deeply ingrained.
Plus, hey man, he gettin ALL da Cadillacs!!
sorry....
This is a new generation who see Marxism as the latest fad different and hip - and they see traditional ethical restraints and wisdom as boring and old. They don't really understand exactly what it means until they get burned like a moth flirting with fire.
I hope Obama’ mugging wakes them up sooner than later. I also hope that when they do wake up they realize leftist self destruction is not new nor hip at all.
As long as they stay home on Election Day and keep their wallets closed, I don't care who they like or don't like.
Then ruin the new place too. Look at the disaster that has befallen Vermont and New Hampshire.
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