Friday, November 23, 2007

Democrats More Wealthy Than Republicans

But they understand the plight of the common man. You know like John Edwards.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow that data sure turned out to be extremely unimpressive. 58% of districts in the top third on household income are democratic. Oh, btw, according to http://www.docuticker.com/?p=13789 about 8% more americans are democrats than are republicans.

We all know that the republican party has revitalized itself in the last few decades by appealing to religious fundamentalists and social conservatives in poor/rural distrcits. When we call teh republicans the party of the rich, we mean that the actual politicians and their advisors are rich people with close ties to major corporations, and that their voting record shwos support for legislation that favors the rich and hurts the poor. Hell, there's a best-selling book on the topic (What's The Matter With Kansas?), so it seems disingenuous to misinterpret the phrase this way.

Anonymous said...

Wikipedia Also puts Dems at 42.6% of the electorate and republicans at 'about a third of the electorate.'