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| The Demographics that Sank the Democrats in the Midterm Elections |
| 2014-11-07 |
Over the past five years, the Democratic Party has tried to add class warfare to its pre-existing focus on racial and gender grievances, and environmental angst. Shortly after his re-election in 2012, President Obama claimed to have “one mandate . . . to help middle-class families and families that are working hard to try to get into the middle class.” Yet despite the economic recovery, it is precisely these voters, particularly the white middle and working classes, who, for now, have deserted the Democrats for the GOP, the assumed party of plutocracy. The key in the 2014 mid-term elections was concern about the economy; early exit polls Tuesday night showed that seven in 10 voters viewed the economy negatively, and this did not help the Democratic cause. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #9 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-07 13:11 |
| #8 The truth is Obama specifically and Democrats (and blue state model large corporations as well) in general loath small business and the only thing they perceive small business as being good for is a potential income stream for Democrat donors in investment and finance fields Success stories by the working class are poison for the left since it incites perople to work hard and study to emulate them instead of voting for "Hope and change" thinking they will no longer need to pay reant or for filling their car's tank (real statements from some Obama voters after the 2008 elections). The left can tolerrate a couple Stev Job's or ill Gate's because these are obviouly once in a decade stories. It is the myriad small businesses with their myriad of owaners not voting for tem and the myrias examples that "it can be done" they hate and fear. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-11-07 10:43 |
| #7 regulatory crush = Soviet Central Planning by any other name. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-11-07 08:18 |
| #6 They did best in states like California and New York where there is a high concentration of progressive post-graduates and non-whites, Hmmm, progressive post-graduates, translation socialist with a college degree plus and non-whites, original Obama voters who still have his bumper stickers on their cars late in 2014. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Thud3213 2014-11-07 08:17 |
| #5 the regulatory crush that has been heaped on small business. Regulations which do little or nothing to help The regulatory monster is suffocating us in big (the biggest!) business too. Half of my time spent in getting an oil well from idea to oil in the tank is consumed by dealing with government regulations. This feels like double what it was 10 years ago. And it was already bad. I wouldn't have an objection if the regulations actually made sense or allowed logical flexibility, but no - it's all about making sure boxes are checked off on forms and all entries match to the sixth decimal place. It is driving me to early retirement - let somebody else deal with it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-11-07 07:52 |
#4  Chickens home to roost possibly ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-07 06:46 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-11-07 06:38 |
| #2 Obama has, as the article points out, driven pretty much all small business from even considering voting for Democrats. Not primarily because of taxes, as the article says, but because of the regulatory crush that has been heaped on small business. Regulations which do little or nothing to help consumers or employers or the environment, but a great deal to shore up job security of the employees at the regulatory agencies. To the extent that this administration has paid lip service to helping small business at all, they have done so in a way which is ultimately not helpful long term. Their "help" consists of trying to get small businesses to borrow more and more money and become even more dependent and debt-ridden - all the time enriching the Wall Street friends and donors that helped put him in office. The truth is Obama specifically and Democrats (and blue state model large corporations as well) in general loath small business and the only thing they perceive small business as being good for is a potential income stream for Democrat donors in investment and finance fields. Access to credit is nice, but if you talk to business owners like myself, you'll find that 99 out of 100 would trade a little access to cheap credit for relief from the regulatory monster that has grown to epic proportions in the past six years. Keep your addictive and dependency creating credit and get off my back and let me do my thing. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-11-07 05:51 |
| #1 Permit me to suggest it was not demographics but their suck-ass policies over the last few years. Like "Let's drive energy prices up!" Genius, Holmes, genius. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-11-07 02:32 |