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« on: December 16, 2016, 09:46:37 AM » |
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A key point to remember is that income correlates only loosely with feelings of poverty in the U.S.: someone making $30,000 in rural Oklahoma is probably doing fine, while someone making $30,000 in Manhattan is barely getting by. Another factor is that lower-earning whites are likely to be younger. If memory serves, whites making $50,000 or less voted narrowly for Obama in 2008, and he lost them narrowly in 2012, though he probably still won them outside the South. Hillary Clinton was a uniquely poor candidate for this demographic, and flaws in her campaign strategy doomed her in light of her other flaws.
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