Blue Collar Voters

Working Class White Voters Are Ditching McCain

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


KITTANNING, Pa. — The steel mills and coal mines of western Pennsylvania helped fuel the nation's economic engine. Today, old factory shells and...

Trampling Working-Class Voters with the Professional Ideal

David Sirota | Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics


David Sirota

What Democrats are really asserting is that they believe Americans see factory, small-business, and agriculture jobs as merely a means to a white-collar professional ends.

The $109 Million Dollar Question: Is Clinton Really A Populist?

Dan Treul | Posted 05.12.2008 | Home


Dan Treul

This weekend, as Clinton defended her gas tax proposal against what she described as the "elite opinion" of professional economists, I, like so many others, had to ask the obvious question: Since when does a Clinton get off as such a populist?