[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
Uh, it makes perfect sense. You have a woman who makes 25k a year, but is married to a man that makes 65k a year (or vice versa). That household is absolutely middle class, but that woman on her own is not.
So when you look at her vote, you see a woman that makes 25k a year that voted for Obama, and now you’re assuming that she’s not middle class, even though you’re not taking into account the other wage earner in the family.
The numbers, on their own, cannot tell you the information that you’re trying to draw for them.
So again, if you had a survey that had who voted for whom based on HOUSEHOLD income (which is a better predictor of “class”) than you would have more of a leg to stand on. But this argument, as it stands, is invalid.[/quote]
No, that’s fine, but people who have personal income in the $50-100k range are the typical middle class. There might be others who fall into that category who make less due to the household issue you raise, and that is fine, but the outliers don’t disprove the general category - that is, people who make money in this range are the typical middle class, and they voted for Romney moreso that for Obama.[/quote]
Show me a statistic that says those people are outliers. I don’t believe that they are. They may not make up the MAJORITY, but you’re not talking one out of every hundred families that is built like this. My family, and a lot of other ones that I know, are built like this.
And further, there are plenty of two-parent homes where each is bringing in 40-50k, meaning that they’re the definition of middle class, but their vote, according to that poll, still counts in the under 50k range.
Being as Romney only won the 50-100k by a 52-47 margin… well, that’s a lot of data that would have to be reevaluated before you could make the judgement that you’re making.
So again, show me household income proof and I’ll look at it, but you are ABSOLUTELY not accurately representing the numbers if you say that CNN’s exit poll means the middle class went for Romney.