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http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/09/11/us-usa-election-poll-bible-belt-idINBRE88A05H20120911
Interesting that class could be eclipsing race as a division point with candidates. Also it seems people still associate Democrats with being more favorable to the lower and middle classes.
And wow there are some underinformed people on all sides of the spectrum... yeesh.
(Reuters) - Sheryl Harris, a voluble 52-year-old with a Virginia drawl, voted twice for George W. Bush. Raised Baptist, she is convinced -- despite all evidence to the contrary -- that President Barack Obama, a practicing Christian, is Muslim.
So in this year's presidential election, will she support Mitt Romney? Not a chance.
"Romney's going to help the upper class," said Harris, who earns $28,000 a year as activities director of a Lynchburg senior center. "He doesn't know everyday people, except maybe the person who cleans his house."
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Focusing on 11 states from Virginia and North Carolina to Texas and Oklahoma, the Reuters/Ipsos polling project canvassed 8,690 people in households with incomes under $55,000 a year -- just above the U.S. median.
Non-Hispanic whites in this bracket have skewed Republican for more than three decades, and they prefer the GOP nominee to Obama by 46 percent to 29 percent. However, as Romney launches a post-convention ad blitz, those numbers could signal trouble for his campaign. Strategists in both parties figure that to offset the president's expected landslide among an expanding electorate of blacks and Hispanics -- Obama won 80 percent of minority votes in 2008 -- Romney must garner more than 60 percent of the white vote overall.
Interesting that class could be eclipsing race as a division point with candidates. Also it seems people still associate Democrats with being more favorable to the lower and middle classes.
And wow there are some underinformed people on all sides of the spectrum... yeesh.
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