The Post/ABC poll finds that 68 percent of Americans think the U.S. economic system generally favors the wealthy rather than being fair to most Americans (only 27 percent believe the latter).Hoping this perceived bias posed an opportunity for Democrats, people were asked the following:
Who do you think has better ideas about how to make the economic system more fair than it is now - the (Democratic Party) or the (Republican Party)?Fifty percent of non-college whites favored the Republicans, only 29% said the Democrats. Democrats are well along the path to losing the white vote. All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
Sargent quotes Ron Brownstein's observation on these voters' basic belief:
Democrats are unduly burdening the ‘makers’ to support (and politically mobilize) the ‘takers.'Go on, call it "buying votes with our money," why don't you? It's how non-college whites characterize it.
