To what degree might this be a product of the Democrats' monopoly of the African-American vote and racial re-districting? And how much variance are we looking at?

The Founders created the Senate to ensure that the views of the right sort of people would take precedence over those of the rabble.

Looks like they accomplished their goal.

Another small note about the US and equality.

The picture I use here is Francis Bellamy, author of the US' Pledge of Allegiance, a Baptist minister, and a socialist.

I read that, being the good socialist that he was, he wanted it to include the word equality: "One nation, with liberty, justice, and equality for all." But the word equality was left out by others.

I think that speaks to the issue of how much, or how little, this country values the idea of equality.

Hopefully this is the last one.

We have something in the US that is called "democracy," but it's not really democracy at all (the word does literally mean "people government", by the way).

What's important to us is our precious economy, not those handful of elected officials that pretend to be government.

We socialists know about words being misused this way. What has been called socialism in the past century, well, that wasn't socialism at all, either.

Re: And yet these poor people keep voting for these politicians who clearly don't care about their problems. That has been the true genius of the Republicans, getting the great masses of the "unwashed" to vote against their own best interests.

The poor vote mainly for Democrats. You can make a case certainly that the Democrats also don't care much about the poor, but I don't think you can blame that on the GOP.

Larry, I wonder did you try and correlate this level of influence by which income level of voters are more inclined to be swing voters? The standard wisdom is that low income voters and minority voters tend to vote (when they vote at all) strongly Democratic. Consequently, it is believed that neither party has much incentive to court these voters, either because they can be sure they will win their vote (Democrats) or because they are sure they will never win their vote (Republicans). Either way, that vote is taken for granted.

It seems to me that this is a powerful dynamic in American politics, exacerbated by the use of a winner take all electoral system where it's quite predictable which legislative districts and which states are competitive. The fact is, I don't believe there are many, if any, competitive congressional districts from an urban area in the United States. That means the voters in those districts can be taken for granted by both Democratic and Republican parties.

Which leads me to my second question: isn't the dynamic you have identified also strongly correlated with an urban vote versus a suburban vote versus a rural vote? Most poor people live in the urban and rural areas. As explained above, most urban areas vote reliably Democratic and are taken for granted. Most rural areas vote reliably Republican and also are taken for granted.

Isn't the real problem here our winner take all electoral system, which allows whole blocks of voters to be sliced and diced into red versus blue districts, with the swing districts (mostly in the suburbs) the ones that receive the greatest attention because they will decide who controls a majority in Congress? So in this slicing and dicing, poor people are cut out of the calculations, because they don't help you (the parties) win elections. This is a very Downsian sort of analysis, in that parties do whatever will help them maximize votes since their job is to win elections.

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