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Democrats Being Party of the Rich Could Cost Them 2024 Election
Newsweek ^ | June 14, 2023 | Nick Reynolds

Posted on 06/15/2023 3:23:18 AM PDT by DoodleBob

…Demographic data compiled in the 2016 and 2020 elections showed that the top 40 percent of income earners preferred the Democratic candidate for president (Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden) over the Republican (Donald Trump), signifying a sizable coalition shift from where the party was in the previous decade.

Recent data shows the trend is likely baked in. In a CNBC survey, America's millionaires said they are more likely to support Biden over Trump in the upcoming presidential election by double-digit margins. And most of the nation's voters are not wealthy.

In the 2016 election, approximately 60 percent of white working-class voters voted for Trump, according to a Vanderbilt University study. Four years later, demographic data showed Trump's vote share in lower-income counties across the U.S. increased by several points, while Biden ran up the tally in higher-educated (and more affluent) urban and suburban counties.

Other data shows the working class squarely in conservatives' domain as well. Republicans represent 64 percent of congressional districts with median incomes below the national median, while nine of the 10 wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats, according to data compiled by Democratic Ohio Representative Marcy Kaptur's office. To some degree, Fowler said, the trend is likely explainable in both parties' rhetoric: Democrats used to embrace the working class until they didn't.

Republican thought leaders, meanwhile, have seized on the opportunity.

Recent columns published by conservative outlets like The National Review have called for an end to government subsidies for corporations long-considered engines for economic development. Conservative pollsters like Rasmussen have also found an increasing affinity for ending "corporate welfare" among Republican voters across the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: potus2024; therich
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1 posted on 06/15/2023 3:23:18 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

“Siezed on...”

They didn’t ‘pounce’ this time?


2 posted on 06/15/2023 3:38:56 AM PDT by digger48
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To: DoodleBob

As long as state legislatures continue to allow cheat-by-mail-in ballots, Democrats have nothing to worry about. Every election in 2024 will end the way it did with Kari Lake.


3 posted on 06/15/2023 3:40:42 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: DoodleBob

But not the 2024 Steal.


4 posted on 06/15/2023 3:45:30 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: DoodleBob

If we started deporting freeloading, illegal aliens (the banana boater voters), that would really screw the Dung Beetle turd roller party in 2024.


5 posted on 06/15/2023 3:49:08 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The southern invasion has been a big success. Foreigner invaders are running the government now.)
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To: DoodleBob

The GOP is in the process of rejecting the working class and Trump.


6 posted on 06/15/2023 3:50:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: DoodleBob

Which leave the GOP in a quandary. The GOPe hates the working class and their rich donor class is going over to the Demo-fascist. What’s a party to do?


7 posted on 06/15/2023 3:52:07 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: DoodleBob

Haven’t we all had enough? We need a new party. This one is 100% compromised.


8 posted on 06/15/2023 3:54:21 AM PDT by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: DoodleBob

The Democrat Party is the party of LGBTQPEDOGROOMERS, Blacks, Jews,Union Thugs, and women who only care about having more ABORTIONS!


9 posted on 06/15/2023 3:54:33 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: HandBasketHell

You’re right HandBasketHell.

It’s over. No more election wins except deep state candidates. I’ll still vote but I am under no illusion that any America first candidate will ever win.

Here and there we will see enough controlled opposition to maintain a modicum appearance of two parties.


10 posted on 06/15/2023 4:01:44 AM PDT by Principled (Biden is illegitimate and whatever he says can be ignored. )
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To: DoodleBob

remember 2020. Millions of ballots will magically appear. Democrats will win again.


11 posted on 06/15/2023 4:05:36 AM PDT by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: central_va

That’s why the RINO’s have steadily been losing the power struggle with MAGA. Its only going to continue. MAGA will take over more precincts, target and defeat more RINOs in the primaries and seize more of the levers of power within the party.

The RINOs just have to be hunted down one by one.


12 posted on 06/15/2023 4:14:04 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: central_va
What’s a party to do?

Die. WHIG v2.0.

13 posted on 06/15/2023 4:20:59 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: DoodleBob
The advantage white liberal 'elties' have is they control nad own the 'black community', the sexual weirdo community, and the bimbos and pretentious 'men' of the MSM.. Money buys the 'easy' ones.
14 posted on 06/15/2023 4:25:01 AM PDT by GOPJ (Plastic surgery makes you LOOK 20 years younger it doesn't MAKE you20 years younger. Same with trans)
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To: DoodleBob
The advantage white liberal 'elties' have? They control and own the 'black community', the sexual weirdo community, and the bimbos and pretentious 'men' of the MSM.. Money buys the 'easy' ones cheap.
15 posted on 06/15/2023 4:28:32 AM PDT by GOPJ (Plastic surgery makes you LOOK 20 years younger it doesn't MAKE you20 years younger. Same with trans)
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To: DoodleBob
In the 2016 election, approximately 60 percent of white working-class voters voted for Trump,

That's why WEF is waging war on the middle class, small business owners, and farmers. Sounds like another famous (infamous) guy's plan: "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."

16 posted on 06/15/2023 4:30:36 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Sirius Lee

Small business owners, and farmers are by definition not working class. Those two groups thrive on cheap ( working class ) labor whether legal or illeagl. That is just a fact.


17 posted on 06/15/2023 4:35:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
Small business owners, and farmers are by definition not working class. Those two groups thrive on cheap ( working class ) labor whether legal or illeagl.

Wrong. There's a reason nobody will hire you, and "illeagls" aren't it.

18 posted on 06/15/2023 4:44:33 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Ann Archy

Another factor you should consider is that the rapidly increasing number of Asian American voters vote for the Democratic Party. Like white liberals, they tend to be upper income, often professionals and, if educated in this country, have attended the same universities that their white liberal counterparts have attended. The Hispanic population on the other hand is more problematical for the Democratic Party. The immediate immigrants usually vote for the Democrats. However, Hispanics, like the Italian, German, and Slavic voters of yesteryear, tend to assimilate into the white working class population, especially in the third generation.


19 posted on 06/15/2023 4:45:03 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Sirius Lee

Sorry, facts are facts. By definition farmers and business owners are not “working class”. That isn’t to say they don’t work hard but they are self employed and are users of the working class - both legal and illegal labor. I am not saying this is bad, it is just the way it is.


20 posted on 06/15/2023 4:47:33 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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