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In reply to the discussion: Democrats' hunt for the white working-class male voter [View all]betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)It isn't that working class whites ALL vote republican and are all gun nuts. It is that most don't vote now because they don't see the point. They have had their incomes decline under both democrats and republicans. Also minorities and women are over-enthralled by symbolic candidacies like Clinton and Obama... These conservative minority and women candidates, have not been good for working class minorities and women. Both groups have seen huge income declines under the rein of New Democrats like Clinton and Obama, yet they are still pollyannas over the fact that these candidates technically come from their group. Most early success stories among discriminated against groups are collaborators with the Rich. Clinton and Obama are not exceptional in this re-guard.
I am a women by the way and Clinton will no brownie points from me for being one.