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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So why are poor people voting Republican? Or should I have qualified it and said, poor white people?
I do agree with you about poor people not voting in the same numbers as rich. But that won't make any difference as the numbers of poor increase.
This is misleading.
10%of 10 is 1.
5% of 90 is 4.5.
Inner cities with a lot of black, Latino and other ethnic minorities did vote Democrat. In the Mid-West did poor white people swing it for Trump?
Can a candidate unite Americans on the income level rather than the colour of their skin?
Or should that be when will a candidate unite Americans on the income level rather than the colour of their skin?
I don't believe Democrats have done much to look after the poor and up to the lower middle-class Americans. They want decent paying jobs not handouts. |
People vote for different candidates and parties for different reasons. Just because a poor person votes for one party or the other doesn't mean that they are doing so only because they think they can help them not be poor. Some may vote for the candidate who they think will help them financially, but there are also other social and political issues people take into consideration. For example, there are a good number of Republicans who will never vote for a pro-choice candidate so they will never vote Democrat no matter if they are rich or poor.
Can a candidate unite Americans on income level? I doubt it because this country is so divided among many other political lines they won't be able to look past those.