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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (30198)	10/18/2004 10:48:19 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

Elitist party Images of America's two major political wings have been frozen for generations — Democrats: the party of the little guy, Republicans: the party of the wealthy. Or are they? "No more," says Karl Zinsmeister, editor in chief of the American Enterprise and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. In an AEI paper, he says whole blocs of "little guys" — ethnics, rural residents, evangelicals, cops, construction workers, homemakers, military veterans — began moving into the Republican column as early as the 1960s and 1970s. "And big chunks of America's rich elite — financiers, academics, heiresses, media barons, software millionaires, entertainers — drifted into the Democratic Party," Mr. Zinsmeister continues. "John Kerry is a perfect embodiment of the takeover of the Democratic Party by wealthy elites. If elected, he would become the richest man ever to sit in the White House," he says, citing such Democratic senators as Jon Corzine of New Jersey and John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia as "simultaneously at the top of the heap in wealth and on the left in politics." As for the party shift across the American landscape, an Ipsos-Reid study comparing counties that voted strongly for George W. Bush to those that voted strongly for Al Gore in the 2000 election found that in pro-Bush counties only 7 percent earned at least $100,000, while 38 percent had household incomes below $30,000. In pro-Gore counties, fully 14 percent pulled in $100,000 or more, while 29 percent earned less than $30,000.