I'm talking about recent elections (say, since 2000) not FORTY YEARS AGO !
Bush-Romney-McCain-Dole Repubs lost those blue collar voters. I can't imagine why ?
I'm talking about recent elections (say, since 2000) not FORTY YEARS AGO !
Bush-Romney-McCain-Dole Repubs lost those blue collar voters. I can't imagine why ?
All I did was read the one sentence post you made to everyone on the thread and gave a correction.
To: Cronos; All
Lots of comments on this thread illustrating why the Repubs before Trump didn’t do very well with blue collar whites, and lower income white collar whites.
45 posted on 5/9/2024, 10:17:27 PM by Reverend Wright
No compassion or hint of understanding….
Something you should read.
“In the 2012 generational election, half of Mitt Romney’s supporters were whites without a college degree, compared to about a quarter of Obama voters. Yet Romney still lost the presidency — and by an Electoral College landslide.
That’s because white blue-collar voters are a shrinking share of the voting pool.
As their population shrinks, they’ve also become more faithfully Republican.
“My contention is that what Reagan did was he brought a new group of people into the Republican Party, and that has grown and has become more significant,” explained Democratic pollster Peter Hart. “It is less establishment; it is more what I call downscale, blue-collar non-establishment.”
Another way to think about this is that while white working-class voters are now only about a third of the overall electorate, they’re about half of the Republican electorate.”