Political Demographics

James Taranto, who writes The Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web Today column, has an excellent summary of the various arguments concerning demographics and the upcoming election. It turns out to be one of those deals you can argue in any direction you choose, depending on your political bias.

It is fascinating that the Democratic Party, which historically represented the working class, has largely given up representing them. It has replaced them with the huge numbers of non-military governmental employees (local, state, federal), who understand by whom their bread is buttered.