That's a fave old stand by line you guys love to use.... the way we see it the Koch bros own all of the repubs
Good read here, Jack.
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How Did Rich People Vote, and Why?
By
R.M. Schneiderman November 11, 2008 5:27 pm November 11, 2008 5:27 pm
In the aftermath of the 2008 presidential election, exit polls
showed that 52 percent of voters who make $250,000 a year or more voted for Barack Obama.
In a recent article for Slate and Newsweek, Daniel Gross
pointed out that in doing so, those affluent voters went against their economic self-interest, since Mr. Obama is likely to raise their taxes.
This is unusual. As Paul Krugman
argued in a blog post last year — contrary to popular belief — the wealthy do not always vote against their economic interests. In fact, far from it.
Yet there is a strange paradox. In response to Mr. Krugman’s post, a reader
pointed out that when you look at the data on the state level, wealthy states do tend to vote for the Democratic Party, which has the reputation of raising taxes on the wealthy.
“The paradox is that, while these rich states have become more strongly Democratic over time, rich voters have remained consistently more Republican than voters on the lower end of the income scale,”
wrote Andrew Gelman and his colleagues in the book “Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do.”
Nevertheless, this year, Mr. Obama managed to win both the rich states and the wealthy voters.
The reason, Mr. Gross said is that “angry yuppies who’ve hugely benefited from President Bush’s tax cuts…have become so outraged and alienated by the incompetence, crass social conservatism, and repeated insults to the nation’s intelligence of the Bush-era Republican Party that they’re voting with their hearts and heads instead of their wallets.”
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/how-did-rich-people-vote-and-why/?_r=0