Biden has reached a critical moment in the battle for blue-collar voters

[brooklynite]

CNN

In an extensive new study of working-class attitudes released last Friday, the veteran Democratic pollster Stanley B. Greenberg and firms specializing in Black and Hispanic voters argue that the combination -- new benefits for economically squeezed families, funded by confronting groups that have benefited from increasing economic inequality -- provides Democrats their best chance to improve with blue-collar voters of all races.

"This polling and this collaboration is a wake-up call that says these people are desperate to have someone battle for them," says Greenberg, who became renowned in the mid-1980s for documenting the alienation from the Democratic Party of White blue-collar "Reagan Democrats" in Macomb County, outside Detroit. "They are only there [electorally] if you want to change the power balance ... if you want to make real big economic change, and you really understand their lives. And it's been a long time since they have seen that from Democrats."

But the depth of the hole Democrats face with working-class White voters was underscored by last week's election losses in Virginia, where exit polls showed Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin, a wealthy former private equity executive, winning about three-fourths of Whites without college degrees, and in New Jersey, where the longtime Democratic president of the state Senate was swept away in a heavily blue-collar district by a Republican truck driver who had never before sought office.

To many analysts, those outcomes underscore how many cultural barriers still limit Democrats among White blue-collar voters, even if they can deliver more kitchen-table assistance.

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1. poor white voters (Reagan democrats) have never voted out of knowledge of economic situation

For 40 years, these idiots have voted for Reagan and other republicans who have hurt them economically because they hate the same things: people of color, abortion, and intellectuals (anyone with more intelligence or education).

When (R) made it easier to ship jobs overseas? They still voted for them even after they got laid off.

When (R) gave all the tax breaks to the rich? They still voted for them even after they got the same tax bill and the uberrich paidd literally nothing.

When (R) cut Pell rants and financial aid that would have helped their kids go to college? They still voted for them and shouted against socialist handouts and the intellectual elites.

Gianing these voters will never come from bettering their economic situation -- they vote on emotions -- mostly negative hate.

To think otherwise is foolish.

As democrats we should still try to help them as we help all in society, but to think that they are willing (or even capable) of changing from votes from fear and hate to ones based on a logical assessment of their economic benefit is just naive.