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The Obama Coalition Is About to Come Apart
American Spectator ^ | 5.16.14 | William Tucker

Posted on 05/17/2014 7:38:44 AM PDT by george76

He owes it all to the Keystone Kops of the leisure class. For the past decade the Democrats have managed to defy gravity by bolting together an unlikely coalition of the richest and poorest Americans. It’s no secret. Ever since President Bush’s re-election in 2004, the pattern has been clear. People making above $100,000 and below $40,000 vote Democratic. The people in the middle vote Republican.

But now that top-bottom coalition is about to come apart, or lose its majority status at least. And the issue will be one that may loom larger than the debacle of Obamacare — the Keystone Pipeline.

.. African-Americans vote 90 percent for him and form an indispensable part of his coalition. But Obama hasn’t done a thing for them since taking office except increase unemployment.

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Obama’s critical support comes from the upper crust of America, the citizens who live comfortably sheltered in academia and the non-profit sector, who don’t care much about electricity or the manufacturing economy but who honestly believe that we can shut down the whole middle portion of the country and turn off the lights in order to save the world from the “pollution” of carbon dioxide.

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Obama’s most crucial supporters — the upper-class environmental movement — have drawn the line in the sand. Approve the Keystone Pipeline and he’s toast.

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It has now become obvious that the economy is never going to improve under Obama because he and his supporters don’t want it to.

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When you couple an aristocratic upper crust that has lost interest in economic progress with a lumpenproletariat that doesn’t understand growth and only wants handouts from the government, you have a prescription for long economic decline.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: keystone; keystonepipeline; keystonexl; opec; pipeline; unemployment
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To: ViLaLuz

That’s why I specifically said “Out Homosexual”.


21 posted on 05/17/2014 8:51:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: george76
People making above $100,000 and below $40,000 vote Democratic. The people in the middle vote Republican.

IMHO, truer words have never been spoken. Now, if we could only get the idiot GOP to understand that. The middle class has always been Republican. That's why the commie DemocRATS are working so hard to rub the middle class out. In their Amerika, you are either a rich elitist or one of the unwashed masses who keep the communists in "powah".

22 posted on 05/17/2014 8:53:56 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Tupelo
Democraps are planning to send KKK hoods to the next RNC Convention.
23 posted on 05/17/2014 8:55:45 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah... I made my pre-coffee. Sorry!


24 posted on 05/17/2014 9:00:57 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: george76

“Obama.....the child of poverty”? Going to a private school in Hawaii? Going to the finest universities? “Child of poverty”? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!


25 posted on 05/17/2014 9:07:02 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
"That may be the salvation of the West if they kill themselves off."

I don't expect that to happen when there is so much to steal.

We'll probably have to kill them off ourselves.

26 posted on 05/17/2014 9:10:09 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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bkmk


27 posted on 05/17/2014 9:11:50 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: GOPJ
" 'I'm the REAL democrat - Obama wasn't liberal enough'"

No, she'll run as a moderate (just as Obama did). She'll talk bout reaching across the aisle (after all, they DO have some legitimate concerns) and maybe even talk about bringing some high-profile RINOs into her cabinet.

It will all be lies, of course.

28 posted on 05/17/2014 9:13:13 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: chajin

Great post. Thank you.


29 posted on 05/17/2014 9:27:44 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: stanne

Racist ones.


30 posted on 05/17/2014 9:31:34 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Did you just get off the short bus or what?)
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To: george76

I failed to read anything in the article that makes me think they are going anywhere but into further evil.


31 posted on 05/17/2014 9:39:02 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: george76
The Obama Coalition Is About to Come Apart

Dream on - this is a religion, no facts need be present, only faith required.
32 posted on 05/17/2014 9:40:36 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: GOPJ

The native born Chinese would join their Asian brothers already here in voting 70 percent Democrat.


33 posted on 05/17/2014 9:41:48 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: dfwgator
3. The first out homosexual President - TBD

Already been filled.






34 posted on 05/17/2014 9:49:01 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: chajin
meaning the rest of us, ("lumpenproletariat," )

Actually, no. The lumpenproletariat was a term invented by Marx to describe what we would call the underclass, the marginalized, the criminals, the homeless, bums and vagrants who would never be able to develop class consciousness. "The rest if us" would be the bourgeoisie, marked by Marx for destruction. Hence Obama's war on the middle class.

35 posted on 05/17/2014 9:52:26 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Luke21
Agreed. The great silent majority may rise up and turn out the left wingers like we did in 2010 but there is nothing in the article that backs up the title. The coalition is essentially the same one that democrats have ridden to power since the New Deal, and it shows no sign of changing.
36 posted on 05/17/2014 10:08:03 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Luke21
Agreed. The great silent majority may rise up and turn out the left wingers like we did in 2010 but there is nothing in the article that backs up the title. The coalition is essentially the same one that democrats have ridden to power since the New Deal, and it shows no sign of changing.
37 posted on 05/17/2014 10:09:37 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Luke21
We make a deal with them... if they don't want the deal we'll choose 'immigrants' from some other country... Democrats don't care about the quality of the people they sell citizenship to...

I'd like to give citizenship free to foreign born journalist and politicians... let 'our guys' compete for jobs and rock bottom pay for a while... after all they'd be helping 'dreamers'... who come here for the love of it...

38 posted on 05/17/2014 10:35:56 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama - when will you tell radical muslims to stop clinging to their guns & religion?)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Middle class white people are leaving the democrat party...


39 posted on 05/17/2014 10:37:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama - when will you tell radical muslims to stop clinging to their guns & religion?)
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To: dfwgator

What about the first transgender President? Or the first President into whips and chains? Don’t underestimate Democrats... shallowness has no bottom for them...


40 posted on 05/17/2014 10:44:09 AM PDT by GOPJ (Obama - when will you tell radical muslims to stop clinging to their guns & religion?)
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