http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/11/04/class-politics-and-geography/ The source on how we live, work and play Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:10:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/11/04/class-politics-and-geography/comment-page-1/#comment-7210 Frank the Tank Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:51:36 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/?p=4552#comment-7210 This is a fascinating argument that turns around the common thinking that poor people have been voting on "values" against their economic interests - in fact, it appears to be the opposite where the affluent can "afford" to vote on their own "values". Of course, a lot of the data Gelman has pointed out is based on the 2004 election, where high-income business people still voted for and gave disproportionate campaign contributions to Republicans over Democrats. In contrast, for all of the talk about Obama's small online donations, he has also dominated in getting contributions from Wall Street and other moneyed constituencies like no other Democrat in history. It will be interesting if Gelman's argument based on 2004 will still hold true for today's election. This is a fascinating argument that turns around the common thinking that poor people have been voting on “values” against their economic interests – in fact, it appears to be the opposite where the affluent can “afford” to vote on their own “values”. Of course, a lot of the data Gelman has pointed out is based on the 2004 election, where high-income business people still voted for and gave disproportionate campaign contributions to Republicans over Democrats. In contrast, for all of the talk about Obama’s small online donations, he has also dominated in getting contributions from Wall Street and other moneyed constituencies like no other Democrat in history. It will be interesting if Gelman’s argument based on 2004 will still hold true for today’s election.

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