Thursday, June 28, 2012

Working-Class Whites a Barrier to a Democratic House

Unlike Obama, House Democrats will have trouble forging a majority without that demographic.

Former House Speaker Tip O’Neill famously remarked that all politics is local. But this year, it’s the rhetoric of John Edwards that rings truer--in assessing the House race landscape, there are indeed two Americas. President Obama believes the way to win a second term is by rallying elements of the party base, but House Democrats trying to take back the majority face the added burden of winning the votes of increasingly disillusioned white working-class voters....

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