[ex-snook]

Sorry I think Buchanan is correct. Middle class is not voting GOP with today’s under/unemployment.

“What was wildly wonderful for Corporate America was hell on Middle America. But the Republican Party had made its choice. It had sold its soul to the multinationals. And as it went along with NAFTA, GATT, fast track and mass immigration, to appease Corporate America, it lost Middle America.” [Pat Buchanan]

[Alberta's Child]

Today's middle class is comprised of a disproportionate number of government employees and "private-sector" employees in industries that rely heavily on government spending.

I don't believe these people were ever really Republican voters at all.