Exit polls: Romney easily wins wealthy voters but is struggling with middle/working class voters

[WI_DEM]

While Mitt Romney tonight over-performed among the groups he struggled with in Iowa -- conservatives, Tea Party supporters, evangelicals -- he didn't fare as well among middle-class and lower-class GOP primary voters.

According to the exit polls, Romney got 51% from those making $200,000 or more, and he got 45% among those making between $100,000 and $199,999 -- higher than the total 36% where he currently stands in New Hampshire.

But among those making less than $30,000, he captured just 31%. And among those making between $30,000 and $49,999, he got 32%. And among those making $50,000 to $99,999, he got 35%.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/10/10102236-looking-at-the-exit-polls-a-class-divide-for-romney

[BeyondGeography]

1. Mitt: It's because they're envious

[chelsea0011]

2. I hope he keeps talking about envy. He said it again...("politics of envy and class") today and that

attitude will sink him.

[BeyondGeography]

3. The insults come so naturally with him

I've never seen a more condescending dolt try to be President in my life.

And this is their most electable candidate. Good times.

[catbyte]

4. It's like he's an android pretending to be human.

I think the gleeful way he said that "firing people" quote will be his undoing, context or not. There was too much Mr. Burns-type joy in the way he said it for it not to be true. It's one of the very few genuine things I've actually heard him say. Everything else is just crap spewed by The Plastic Panderer.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Well, the sadism there, how many people have had an ugly encounter with that?

Lots. I agree with you. Hard to imagine a worse self-inflicted wound.

[RKP5637]

6. Yep, and the constant smug supercilious smirk on his face tells me he's

thinking to himself, I really don't give a F about you I have soooo much money, peasants. Some sociopaths smile all of the time.

[JDPriestly]

7. Why is anyone with an income less than $49,999 voting Republican?

Where have we Democrats failed?

This has got to be changed.

[ingac70]

8. These are the idiots that think Obama was born in Kenya....

no failure on the part of Dems. You can't fix stupid.

[Old and In the Way]

9. +1 I wish there was a better explanation, but there really isn't.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Shocked, I tell ya, SHOCKED!!!!!

[Gman]

11. Damn! We're just going to have to concede the rich vote

Think we 'll survive? LOL! What a bunch of clowns!

[Canuckistanian]

12. ROFL at the DU Homepage pic

"My Filet Mignon is getting cold"