To Laura Ingraham, white people are "regular people."

[Eric J in MN]

From Media Matters for America:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200506030010



Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham argued that the 2004 presidential election returns show that "Republicans are clearly connecting with the regular people, where the Democrats are not." To back up her claim, she asserted that in the 2004 presidential election, among those earning between $23,000 and $50,000, President Bush "won by six points in all Americans and 22 points in white middle-class voters."

Apparently, those constituencies who supported Sen. John Kerry in greater numbers than Bush do not qualify as "regular people." While the source for the statistics Ingraham cited is unclear, exit poll data show that these not-so-regular Kerry supporters include voters in the $15,000-to-$30,000 income bracket, among whom Kerry won by 15 percentage points, and African-Americans, who voted for Kerry over Bush by an 8-to-1 margin. Additionally, women, Hispanics, Jews, and gays and lesbians all supported Kerry over Bush, by an overwhelming margin in some cases.

Further, exit poll income data show that Bush's largest margin of victory came from "regular people" making $200,000 or more per year; his second-largest among those making between $150,000 and $200,000; and his third-largest among those making between $100,000 and $150,000. Kerry, meanwhile, won among those making between $30,000 and $50,000 and those making less than $15,000, in addition to those making $15,000 to $30,000.

From the June 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
INGRAHAM: Well, I think it's interesting that people like Zuckerman would be saying this now, coming off of an election where President Bush was elected with middle-class support, Bill , from about $23,000 to about $50,000 bracket for annual salary. Bush won by six points in all Americans and 22 points in white middle-class voters. So the Republicans are clearly connecting with the regular people, where the Democrats aren't.

[KlatooBNikto]

1. I think Bush won hands down in the overpaid ( $500,000 or more)

propagandist bimbette category,starting with ( horrors!) Laura herself.

[Ksec]

2. white people are regular people

Shes saying Repubs are regular, and we arent/

Shes an idiot.

[AX10]

3. David Duke is a "regular person" to the GOP!

Bush lost the working class of America. He won the upper middle class, rich, filthy rich, and absurdly/absolutly filthy rich folk.

[walldude]

4. While I'd love to agree with that

some of the middle, lower-middle and poor had to have a hand in his election. Even if they rigged the election he still got an insane amount of votes considering what he has done to this country... Sad but true.
Oh and on the topic, it doesn't suprise me coming from her. If there is one thing the right is consistant on it's thinly veiled racism and classism...

[AX10]

5. The exit polls said that Kerry won at least 51% of the working class.

The further up the scale you get the more right wing it becomes. Where I live in CT, the middle-middle class voted 60-40 in favor of DAS Bush over Kerry.

on edit: the percentages of working class people who voted for the Democratic candidate did decrease, though it seems so. That may have played a hand in Bush's votes along with outright fraud (Diebold).