In eight of the 10 battleground states (Florida, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin), President Obama won voters with incomes under $50,000 while losing voters with incomes of more than $50,000. In the other two swing states (New Hampshire and Colorado), Obama won voters with incomes under $50,000 while tying voters over $50,000 (and losing the subset of voters with incomes over $100,000).
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In his “Fact Checker” column last week, Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post wrote that “Negative ads often work. But clearly some negative ads work better than others.” He then listed two examples of Obama team ads that worked, and one set of Romney team negative ads that didn’t catch on with the voters. The [...]
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In his brilliant, day-after summation of the “new majority” that made up Barack Obama’s winning re-election vote, E. J. Dionne wrote this paragraph: “It cannot be forgotten that saving General Motors and Chrysler was the most ‘interventionist’ and ‘intrusive’ economic policy Obama pursued — and it proved to be the most electorally successful of all [...]
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