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Washington Post - The study represents a slap in the face at Democrats who pride themselves on being the party of working families and a challenge to party leaders as they prepare for next year's midterm elections and the 2008 presidential race.

"Rather than being the party of the middle class, Democrats face a crisis with middle-income voters," the study argues.
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The study is based on Third Way's analysis of 2004 exit polls. Among the five principal findings are that white middle-income voters supported President Bush by 22 percentage points. The study concluded that the "economic tipping point -- the income level above which white voters were more likely to vote Republican than Democrat -- was $23,700."
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"Democrats were not competitive at all among the white middle class," according to the study.

The report also contained alarming news for Democrats about Hispanic voters. The more Hispanics move into the middle class, the less they vote Democratic.

Based on the analysis of exit polls, Kerry's margin over Bush among Hispanics with household incomes below $30,000 was 21 percentage points, but among those with incomes between $30,000 and $75,000, it was 10 points.

"Democrats talk and legislate a great deal about issues that they believe are of concern to the middle class, such as better schools, affordable health care and job security," the report concludes. "This has not translated into middle-class votes."

There is a fundamental problem with liberalism/socialism and that is that the concept survives better when there are more "downtrodden" and "poor" in society. In other words, if everyone was rich there would be no need for most of what makes up liberalism/socialism. Yet another way to say this is that it is in the Conservative's best interest to see as many people succeed in life as possible while it is in the liberals' best interest to see people held down.

This can be evidenced a number of ways in this country, but one of the most glaring is the marriage between Democrats and blacks for the past 40 years. Ever since Goldwater ran as a segregationist, 9 out of 10 blacks have voted for the Democrat party and the Democrat party has played themselves up to be the saviors of the black community. Yet we look back at the progress that has been made over the past 40 years and can attribute none of the relative little progress that has been made to liberalism. In fact, social programs that liberals tout as their helping blacks is most of the time what is holding them back! You see, liberals realize that if they can keep blacks dependent on them for their lives, they will continue to keep voting as a block for liberals.

The GOP on the other hand has no such problem. The GOP, smeared as the Party of the Rich from time to time, has some of it's most loyal constituents in the upper class. It is in the GOP's best interest to see everyone move up from low, through middle, and into upper class. This can even be evidenced today as Bush pushes the American "Ownership Society."

There are those who wish to make as many people dependent on government as possible and they are called liberals. More and more Americans, it seems, are seeing through this and seeing it for what it really is...