A Working Class Hero Is Something to Be

By artappraiser on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 3:29am |

By Jonathan Chait, "Daily Intel" @ New York Magazine, Dec. 1, 2011

A week ago, John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira, analysts at the Center for American Progress, wrote a paper that triggered an especially absurd game of telephone. The paper laid out the demographic options for the Obama reelection effort. In a nutshell, the growing proportion of minorities and college-educated white in the electorate means that Obama can lose the white working-class vote by even higher margins – almost as high as Democrats lost them in 2010 – and still win a majority.

That’s when the game of telephone kicked in. [....]

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http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/12/working-class-hero-is-something-to-be.html