What is the suburban realignment to Democrats really made of?
What is the suburban realignment to Democrats really made of?
The "working class GOP" strikes again: Rs are circulating polling that supposedly shows college educated voters think unemployment benefits are hurting the recovery. Yet there's no reason to believe a progressive economic agenda will cost Ds these voters:
The Plumb Line
Opinion by Greg Sargent, Columnist at the Washington Post
July 19, 2021|Updated today at 5:17 p.m. EDT
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/19/what-is-suburban-realignment-democrats-really-made/
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Hopkins notes that the idea is grounded in a simplistic picture of the “typical suburban voter as someone who leans conservative on economics but was alienated from the Republican Party by Trumpist cultural concerns.”
However, Hopkins tells me “there isn’t a lot of hard evidence” that “suburban professionals” who have moved to backing Democrats are a “constituency demanding less liberal economics.”
Remember, the suburban shift occurred while Democrats campaigned in 2018 against repeal of the Affordable Care Act and against Trump’s big tax cut for the rich and corporations. Biden also won the suburbs in 2020 in part on those issues. Though visceral hatred of Trump was a big driver, those stances surely helped.
“I don’t think there’s a lot of evidence that the new Democratic voters in the big metro-suburbs are in any significant way out of step with Biden-style economic policy,” Hopkins told me.
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