Should the dems become the party of $100,000 + young professionals?

[Enrique]

Coroporate lobbyist Mark Penn thinks so...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-penn/democrats-need-to-back-ob_b_795143.html

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Second, the Democrats have got to stop returning to class warfare. The Democrats -- and Obama in particular -- were on their way to becoming the party of the upwardly mobile professionals making over $100,000 in income, especially young professionals. This was one of the party's fastest growing constituencies. This was evident in the 2008 election returns as Obama got 49 percent (tying McCain here) of the voters earning over $100,000 and a majority 52% of the voters in households earning over $200,000. And this has become no small group -- $100k households were 26 percent of the 2008 electorate -- up from just 9 percent in 1996. But by failing to make this tax deal before the election, Obama lost a lot of ground with those new Democratic voters, who voted Republican by an 18-point margin in 2010. These voters will favor the social policies of the Democrats and many progressive Democratic domestic policies as long as they don't think they are being taken to the cleaners when it comes to tax policy.

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[emulatorloo]

1. The only thing that makes sense about that is the Dems should have started this before

the election, rather than waiting until the last minute. That really aggravates me,

mark penn, no.

[Larkspur]

2. I'm so glad that Hillary lost the primary. Penn was her chief strategist

who didn't bother to read the Democratic primary rule book. He thought the Democrats ran their primary the same way Rethugicans did -- winner takes all the delegates.

This comment by Penn further shows that he's not a Democrat but a Dewey Republican masquerading as a Democrat.

Young professionals making over $100K are a minority. Democrats need to get back in touch with their roots -- working and Middle Class Americans.

[LongTomH]

3. Actually, it already has!

The appeal of DLC-type politics IS to the $100K+ young professionals.

The flip side of this is, that these same yuppies are, or soon will be, losing ground. My guess is that many of them already are; but, they just don't realize it yet.

[OHdem10]

4. Just asking, does this mean we stop representing the working

poor. Only because Mark Penn is suggesting something, I want
to be absolutely clear.

It was my understanding under DLC we represent the Rich down
to about 50,000 and however many below that will put us over the
top. This is the Bill Clinton Split the difference rule.

Would the young professionals not already be in that group???

Does this party know what it is doing???? please forgive the
sarcasm.