What if working class Americans actually like Occupy Wall Street?

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What if working class Americans actually like Occupy Wall Street?

By Greg Sargent

It’s become an article of faith among some on the right, and even among some neutral commentators, that Obama and Dems risk losing the support of blue collar whites in swing states if they dare to whisper a word of praise for Occupy Wall Street.

But what if the opposite is true — what if working class white voters actually like and agree with Occupy Wall Street’s message, if not always with the cultural and personal instincts of its messengers?

The movement is still very young, and it’s very hard to gauge support for it. But one labor official shares with me a very interesting data point: Working America, the affiliate of the AFL-CIO that organizes workers from non-union workplaces, has signed up approximately 25,000 new recruits in the last week alone, thanks largely to the high visibility of the protests.

Karen Nussbaum, the executive director of Working America, tells me that this actually dwarfs their most successful recruiting during the Wisconsin protests. “In so many ways, Wisconsin was a preview of what we’re now seeing,” Nussbaum says. “We thought it was big when we got 20,000 members in a month during the Wisconsin protests. This shows how much bigger this is.”

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Wow, 25,000 in a week!

[Arkana]

1. As far as I can tell the Obama admin has nothing but praise for the Occupy Wall Street people.

This makes the teabaggers look like a fart in the wind.

[Ikonoklast]

2. Then the 1% is well and truly fucked.

The Teabaggers seem to be caught flat-footed over this, looks like Dick Armey and the Koch Brothers got blind-sided as they have come up with nothing except some bad photoshops to counter OWS...or is it that their erstwhile footsoldiers seem to have more in common with what the OWS protestors are saying about the 1%, and are having second thoughts over just exactly who it was screwed them over?

The backlash is based in reality, and the money is running scared now.