I am not convinced that poor=vote for zerO. I have been very surprised in the past to meet people who are officially *poor* and to find out they voted Republican. They do not expect to remain poor and they have values and love America.
I think there is far less class warfare in actuality than in the donk agenda. Middle class who think they have it rough would not vote the economy killers on the basis of their present situation. They realize they will get nothing and most people will get nothing. Republicans can expect to be targets for ideological reasons if zerO and the donks gain total power.
The Movement failed in the 60s/70s because most people who called themselves hippies were turned off by the extreme violence and extreme control freak attitude of the political cadres. It has been safe to espouse *revolution* in the past 40 years, when it looked difficult to bring it off. Now, it may be just around the corner and I doubt that folks now in their 50s/60s are ready for it. The ones I still have contact with are preparing for hard times. I am told they will vote Nader or McCain or stay home.
Wednesday I spoke to someone who will write in Ron Paul because he was right about the economy. Having lost a considerable portion of her 401(k), watched her husband’s restaurant business suffer from the economy and her own business unable to support its infrastructure, she has cashed her 401(k), invested in 2 long-lived sturdy vehicles, a greenouse, modular solar electricity generators and they are selling one business for the assumption of debt and another for the value of the buildings and hunkering down for the duration. They literally have no further means of support except cash on hand and barter. These folks are in their mid-40s.
This survival attitude is quite prevalent among people I have spoken with.
It ain’t over til it’s over, of course.
Must be those Reverend Wright Ads...
Every single person I know who is voting for McCain is voting Nov 4th here in Florida. Many early voting lines were a 3 hr. wait and no parking every day. We have not even begun to see the votes McCain will get.
No, poor does not equal a vote for 0bama. But probablistically if one randomly chose a person with an income below $22,000, the likelihood of hitting an 0bama voter is higher than if one picked a random person with an income between $22,000 and $20,000,000. (I cut the top off because of all the super-rich twits who want 0bama to make the rest of us into serfs.)
And typically, barring addiction, mental illness or sheer laziness--they do not. This is not a point I ever hear the R party make and we should. Instead of hard luck stories, we should parade out people who came from nothing and have done very well, realized the American dream...I am the perfect example of it.
Steven Colber had a Native American on who said 90% of “his people” are voting Obama.