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All those "how do Democrats get the white working class?" articles are well meaning attempts to finesse the obvious. As long as the party stands for equal rights for all Americans, it never will. More than one person has pointed out the obvious. What do white working class voters want that nonwhite working class voters want? I don't think it has anything to do with working class.

 

Right now, the Republican Party is viewed as the party for white people and the Democratic Party is viewed as the party for minorities. Both parties have struggled to shed the stereotype and siphon some votes, but that's where we're at.

 

Your first two sentences prove the third has already happened.

 

She's right, you know.

 

Yeah, but I'm a parent, too, so we know he hasn't completely gone soft.

 

I don't need to look at other numbers before drawing the conclusion that I don't like the role outside money plays in local elections.

 

And what did the money in, say, Georgia buy?

A GOP majority that stays 247-188 . . . or one that becomes 246-189. Guess Planned Parenthood had nothing better to do with that $820,000.

 

The political donor class, on both sides, is highly anxious to participate in elections. So it saturates high profile elections like Ossoff-Handel. In 2018, more money will be spent, but it will be spread more evenly. After all, if $50 million was spent in each district, that'd be a total of over $20 billion, which is not going to happen.
It's an interesting political science issue that over in South Carolina, in a race that attracted no attention, little money, and had low turnout, the result was almost exactly the same. What that means I dunno, but it's notable

 

Wait, what? It's your business who represents the New York 3rd no matter where you live, because the person who represents the New York 3rd may cast the deciding vote on some piece of legislation that affects the whole damn country.

 

It's just white establishment fanboy navel gazing. Trump turned out enough new WWC voters to balance out his loss of traditional Republican voters who found him repugnant. He ended up with the same vote share as pretty much every normal Republican does.

Democrats don't need to poach Trump's new voters to win. They need to reach the voters that went Obama-Obama-stay home.

 

Panicking Mitch McConnell Shoves Entire Senate Healthcare Bill Into Mouth As Democrat Walks Past

 

And more Lena Dunham and "white privilege!" is a surefire way to pull that off.