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Forget the Hype: It’s Still a Working-Class Election
Liberal Patriot ^ | JUL 25, 2024 | Ruy Texeira

Posted on 07/25/2024 3:39:40 PM PDT by lasereye

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Teixeira is a lifelong Democrat. He cowrote a book The Emerging Democratic Majority in 2002, arguing that the Democratic Party are demographically destined to become a majority party in the United States of the early 21st century. I believe he has since concluded that the analysis was wrong.
1 posted on 07/25/2024 3:39:40 PM PDT by lasereye
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I believe he has since concluded that the analysis was wrong.

Correct.

Teixera discovered that when these Democratic Party demographics assimilate, they start thinking like Republicans.

2 posted on 07/25/2024 3:48:33 PM PDT by Publius
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To the extent Harris has talked about issues other than abortion, “democracy is on the ballot,”

In 1973, 7 guys in black robes made a sweeping judicial decision out of whole cloth that changed the legal status of abortion in the US for every man, woman and unborn child. Nothing remotely democratic about that.

Then the Supreme Court re-visited this with Dobbs and determined that the federal government should not be making such decisions. They returned the matter of abortion to the 50 states so that voters in each state -- all the men and women who show up for state elections to have their voices heard -- they could decide at a state-level how abortion should be handled where they live. It's the definition of democracy.

Liberal women understand none of this.

3 posted on 07/25/2024 4:03:41 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It will be Michelle.)
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Two words I’m newly familiar with: “Populism” and “Ameritocracy”


4 posted on 07/25/2024 4:05:06 PM PDT by know.your.why
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https://www.ameritocracynow.com/
5 posted on 07/25/2024 4:09:26 PM PDT by know.your.why
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To: ClearCase_guy

That 46 Percent of America are leftist noonbats is infuriating.


6 posted on 07/25/2024 4:12:17 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: lasereye

American Blue Collar can relate to a
Canadian Indian Brahmin elitist like Camel Toe .
Sure right.


7 posted on 07/25/2024 4:16:41 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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“It’s a Working-Class Election” sounds about as Hype-ish as it can get.


8 posted on 07/25/2024 4:18:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Read this earlier today, it’s very good. The linked pieces are good too.


9 posted on 07/25/2024 4:19:21 PM PDT by jocon307 (DEMOCRATS DELENDA EST)
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To: cowboyusa

Unless you live in a deep blue state and that percentage goes much higher!


10 posted on 07/25/2024 4:25:05 PM PDT by dowcaet
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Sorry Ruy, but this isn’t the beginning of the Clinton era when the Democrats were the working-class party and the GOP was for the elites. Now the tables have turned because of Trump. Giggles acts and talks like the elitist west coast liberal she is. Working class people of all races identify more with Trump than with her, and that will become very evident in this election cycle.


11 posted on 07/25/2024 4:29:18 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: ClearCase_guy

Cell cluster elimination is alive(?)and well in NV. Put into Nevada Revised Statues in the early 90’s. It will likely never get taken out.


12 posted on 07/25/2024 4:51:26 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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Harry Blackmun deserved to burn in hell for what he did for this country. Half a century of turmoil and multiple radicalized generations


13 posted on 07/25/2024 4:57:40 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: cowboyusa

They will pay a significant price if Harris wins.


14 posted on 07/25/2024 5:10:41 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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I don’t believe they are. I don’t believe the polls which are generated to make election fraud believable.


15 posted on 07/25/2024 5:12:58 PM PDT by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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I would disagree with the premise, and in fact it is belied by the substitution of Harris for Biden.

The rats have already written off the working class voters. They have been trending towards the GOP ever since the Reagan era, and Trump succeeded in bringing them into the GOP fold more or less permanently. Dumping Scranton Joe for Kamala will actually send more working class voters to Trump.

The only way for the rats to win is to increase their edge with suburban voters and particularly suburban women. Trump snagged just enough of these voters to win key states in 2016, but he lost them in 2020. After 4 years of Biden they were trending back to Trump until this week.

I hate to deliver the bad news but Kamala actually has more appeal to the suburbs and obviously to women than Biden did. Hence the immediate bump in polling numbers. Kamala will bring GA, NC, AZ and NV back into play, which will allow her to lose MI, WI or PA to Trump (though plenty of suburban voters in these states).

These voters care about inflation, crime and to a lesser extent immigration (they like having cheap gardeners, maids and fast food). Trump needs to hammer Kamala these issues and simply remind people - were you better off 4 years ago (before COVID) or now?


16 posted on 07/25/2024 5:15:29 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 07/25/2024 5:16:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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I just read an old cnn article around the time Obama offered him the VP position the headline read “Biden appeared confused when...”

I intended to save it. Must have been around 2015 I would guess


18 posted on 07/25/2024 5:37:12 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: KingofZion

Further to my premise, the polls now show that almost all of the poll bump for Kamala is attributed to black voters and young voters. Neither is a surprise.

It is unlikely Trump will win back people who vote on the basis of race, but he still has a good shot with young voters who are unhappy about the lack of well compensated jobs and inflation.


19 posted on 07/25/2024 5:39:54 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: tsowellfan

It would have been 2008 when Obama offered him the VP.


20 posted on 07/25/2024 6:27:11 PM PDT by lasereye
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