Harris Lost the Very Voters She Needed the Most
We live in a working-class country. More people graduate college than ever before, but, among Americans aged 25 and over, the great majority (62 percent) still do not. These non–college graduates define, to demographers, America’s working class. The exit polls are still a little rough around the edges—they’ll need further weighting when the popular vote is fully tallied—but in Tuesday’s election, most voters (57 percent) were working class. Only 44 percent of them voted for Kamala Harris, against 54 percent who voted for Donald Trump ...
I have to stop here and point out something. Not everyone who graduates from college is guaranteed an escape from the "working class". I and my sister and my mother can't be the only people who went to college ... all earning masters degrees ... and ended up working at mundane "working class" jobs that didn't pay well. Alternatively, there are also people who became economic sucesses and never graduated from college.
But anyway, why didn't the Harris campaign try to appeal to the working class? She supported unions, but people in the big unions actually make a lot of money. Remember the almost strike by the Dockworkers union? The people in that union were making six figures already.
When you think of the working vlass, think instead of people making the federal minimum wage = $7.25 an hour. That's about $15,000 a year, and is also the amount I receive from Social Security.
Why didn't the Harris campaign or my party care about us? Because they didn't think it would benefit them. They don't think we vote. Well, we do, and since Trump did try to appeal to we lower forms of life, a lot of us (but not me) voted for him.
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