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Republicans have been specifically encouraging lower middle class voters to forget their own economic interest and vote out of bitterness for years.
They have been running messages like "You needed that job and they gave it to a minority" (actual Jesse Helms commercial) for decades.
But if a Democrat says that working class voters have been screwed and are bitter, it's a "scandal".
Guess what. Working class Americans know that they are bitter. Obama did not, unlike some commenting here, sneer about "mullets" or "dollar stores". He made an accurate and non-insulting comment about the people who most loyally supported the system that screwed them.
Are they starting to figure out that voting for someone who offers a solution is better than voting for someone who panders? It looks as if they may be.
