This guy gets it:

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Working class white people don't like President Obama much. According to the latest Gallup poll, only 27% approve of him. That's 21 percentage points down since he took office in 2009.

A standard talking-point is that these voters don't like Obama because they're racist. But that assumes that the key word in "white working class" is "white." In fact, the key word is "working." After all, Obama isn't any blacker than he was in 2009.

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Posted by Volmanac

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Posted on 12/1/14 at 6:15 pm to tigernchicago

My con law prof.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 12/1/14 at 6:29 pm to tigernchicago

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Americans earning $30,000 to $75,000 a year are more likely to skip medical care because of cost than Americans earning under $30,000 a year.

let's let this stat sink in for a minute

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Posted by TROLA

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Posted on 12/1/14 at 6:43 pm to SlowFlowPro

Schumer was was speaking the truth when decapitating the ACA last week.. The dems choose people who don't work, who choose not to buy healthcare and those that can't afford healthcare over the working class that does. They choose a small fraction that doesn't even vote over a group that is increasingly sensitive to rising costs and does vote.

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Posted by bhtigerfan

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Posted on 12/1/14 at 6:46 pm to tigernchicago

Loved this sentence.

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For them, the poor aren't merely a set of statistics or a cause to be championed. They're the folks next door who don't do a lick of work but somehow keep getting government checks paid for by their tax dollars. "