Advantage At This Point Is Bush's In A Tug-O-War ...

... For Middle Class

"This election is shaping up as a battle for the hearts and minds of America's middle class — the silent majority on whose backs the economic success of this country rests.

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Exit polls from the 2000 presidential election show that three-fourths of the electorate is either middle class or upper-middle class. More specifically, close to half of voters (46%) identified themselves as middle class and another fourth (27%) as upper middle. One in five (18%) said they belonged to the working class. Only a handful identified themselves as upper class (4%) or lower class (2%).

In that election, Bush edged Gore 49%-48% among middle-class voters and secured the upper-middle class vote by a healthy 11-point margin ( 54%- 43%).

Gore had the upper hand with both upper- and working-class voters. Among the self-identified upper classes, Gore won 56%-39%, and among the nation's working class Gore prevailed 51%- 46%. "

While we understand how the "working class" (in the fevered minds of Leftists, anyone earning over 50k per annum does not "work") can be counted on to vote Marx -- er, Dem, it has always fascinated us that so many in the "upper" class do so.

We reckon that when you make (or inherit or marry or sue) a bazillion dollars a year, you don't really care what the taxes on that are -- guilt and self-loathing kick in -- as opposed to the 200K a year earners targetted by the World's Ugliest Gigolo.