Everyone likes to pose our great political divides as Republican problems, as in the "gender gap" and in "moderate voters hate Republican social conservatives."
No doubt, and that matters in swing states like Colorado, Virginia, and North Carolina where the pundits say the November election will be decided. Why? Let William Tucker tell you.
Let's stipulate that those college-educated folks with their high-paying jobs hate the bitter clingers and their God and their guns.
But what about the other side of the equation? Remember how Candidate Obama was going to heal the wounds of the Red-Blue divide? Remember how he only got out a teeny squeak of his "share-the-wealth" agenda to Joe the Plumber back in 2008?
Not any more. These days President Obama is class-warrior-in-chief.
How about this reckless statement. Suppose those college-educated folks in Colorado and Virginia and North Carolina just hate the class-warfare rubbish coming out of Democrats' mouths--from the president to the superb Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and on down the Democratic food chain to the execrable Occupy crowd--suggesting that rich folks, the one percent, "pay a little more."
Class warfare may play well in the inner city or with the government union employee that gets two to three emails a day from the union boss telling her how she is being screwed by the Republican governor. But the college-educated employee working for a young technology company is an achiever. He or she has made a big investment in education and a career. Share-the-wealth means that he or she will have to pay more taxes out to slackers. It means that the return on all that investment and achievement is going to be reduced.
Yet here we have President Obama doing the Democratic equivalent of Rick Santorum. The "socially liberal" educated voter hates Rick Santorum and his social conservatism. Why wouldn't the "economically conservative"educated voter hate President Obama and his economic class warfare?
Just asking.
No doubt, and that matters in swing states like Colorado, Virginia, and North Carolina where the pundits say the November election will be decided. Why? Let William Tucker tell you.
Now, what do these three states have in common? Very simply, they are the nation's new "suburbs," the emerging middle ground between urban centers of the East and West Coasts and Upper Midwest... These are Joel Garreau's "Edge Cities" or David Brooks' "Latte Towns" -- take your pick -- inhabited by Richard Florida's "Creative Class." Their voters are college-educated, employed well-paying, high-status jobs, but far enough away from the media centers so that they haven't yet bought into the liberal dogma that the only way for things to be "fair" in America is to vote for Democrats.These folks are the paradigmatic voters that say they are "economically conservative and socially liberal." Actually, according to my interpretation of Charles Murray in Coming Apart, they are reverse hypocrites. They act socially conservative but talk socially liberal. Go figure.
Let's stipulate that those college-educated folks with their high-paying jobs hate the bitter clingers and their God and their guns.
But what about the other side of the equation? Remember how Candidate Obama was going to heal the wounds of the Red-Blue divide? Remember how he only got out a teeny squeak of his "share-the-wealth" agenda to Joe the Plumber back in 2008?
Not any more. These days President Obama is class-warrior-in-chief.
How about this reckless statement. Suppose those college-educated folks in Colorado and Virginia and North Carolina just hate the class-warfare rubbish coming out of Democrats' mouths--from the president to the superb Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and on down the Democratic food chain to the execrable Occupy crowd--suggesting that rich folks, the one percent, "pay a little more."
Class warfare may play well in the inner city or with the government union employee that gets two to three emails a day from the union boss telling her how she is being screwed by the Republican governor. But the college-educated employee working for a young technology company is an achiever. He or she has made a big investment in education and a career. Share-the-wealth means that he or she will have to pay more taxes out to slackers. It means that the return on all that investment and achievement is going to be reduced.
Yet here we have President Obama doing the Democratic equivalent of Rick Santorum. The "socially liberal" educated voter hates Rick Santorum and his social conservatism. Why wouldn't the "economically conservative"educated voter hate President Obama and his economic class warfare?
Just asking.
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