Democrats speak for the "Middle Class" - who speaks for the "Poor"?

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36. "Middle Class" now says lower...

Despite recovery, fewer Americans identify as middle class

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Despite a slowly recovering economy, the proportion of Americans who identify themselves as middle class has dropped sharply in recent years. Today, about as many Americans identify themselves as lower or lower-middle class (40%) as say they are in the middle class (44%), according to a recent Pew Research Center/USA TODAY survey.
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The findings from the latest survey suggest a significant part of the change in the size of the middle class and lower classes has happened in just the past two years. In a July 2012 Pew Research survey, about half (49%) of the public identified themselves as middle class, five percentage points more than do so today.
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Here.


They feel that way with good reason.

The bottom 90 percent are poorer today than they were in 1987, , here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=500

The "middle class" has always outvoted those in or near poverty. Now millions of people who used to be middle class voters have found themselves suddenly trying to pay the same bills they used to with far less income. If they feel ignored or used, will they vote, especially now that we know, in writing, it is by design, to keep the assets of those with more than others inflated?

Listen here as voters laugh at Timothy "Killer" Geithner's face when he tries to explain how it was good for us to save the banksters on the backs of the most vulnerable people in our country...

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/extended-interviews/z9b8f1/timothy-geithner-extended-interview

I doubt the "poor" as you call them, think about much except perhaps how to slow down the hunger pains, or how to keep from becoming OUR next meal.