That is one of the main reasons the Republicans did not get the great majority of White Working Class Votes…which illustrates further that White Working Folk never belonged in the Republican Party…which was and is for the rich…no taxation for the rich etc.
It is a big mistake and one that romney made…thinking of the White Working Class as conservatives.
Thinking that White Working Class folk are Republican and conservative in nature is a big mistake…they for the most part were lured there by Reagan after the democratic party abandoned the White Working Class in favor of minorities…but the White Working Class had no where else to go and Reagan found it easy to trick them into joining up aka…the reagan democrats.
So in a nutshell the democrats are for the minorities and the republicans are for the rich…thus the White Working Class are without representation.
The White Working Class must either take over the Republican Party or form their own party…if they could come up with a true Champion for the White Working Class with enough charisma…they could sucessfully form their own party.
White Working Class America in a nutshell — places where laborers, truck drivers, cooks, store clerks and business owners form the backbone of small-town life. Places where the deli cashes checks, cars and trucks are “vehicles” and the NFL takes a back seat to high-school football.
It also is a place where presidents are made. No candidate won without Ohio’s 18 electoral votes since John F. Kennedy in 1960. Barack Obama won there in 2008 by about 260,000 votes, 52 percent to 47 percent.
That’s why Ohio’s white, working-class voters and the white working class nationwide… must takecenter stage in the Republican party of the future or the republican party is dead in the water.
The White Working decides who wins the White House. So what do they want? About two dozen interviews in eastern Ohio revealed some answers:
They are looking for a president who understands what it’s like to punch a time clock all month and still come up short on the bills, for a leader who will help the people in work boots as much as those in wingtips. They see money being doled out, from welfare to bank bailouts, and ask why nobody has lent them a hand. They talk of getting rid of everyone in Washington and starting fresh.
Generations of sweaty work and union membership made many deeply skeptical of a Republican multimillionaire CEO like Romney, and he he trailed among white working-class Ohioans…and thus too many of them voted for obama…even though there was widespread frustration with the Democratic president and pessimism about the future…and rightfully so…America is in deep doo but denial is in style and the media cannot get past the word ‘recession’ …convinciing all they can that we are in just a temporary recession and there is pie in the sky when obama is able to deliver it…like he ever willl. geeeze Yes definitelly we are a nation of fools.
The reality of the election was that most Working White Folk liked none of the above…for very minor reasons too many of them voted democratic though.
Obama bailed out Wall Street and the auto industry instead of the white working class. Romney favored the rich and that he bankrupted companies to make investors a profit. So how was a white working class voter supposed to choose between two losers?
“Whoever gets elected, we’re screwed,” was the prevalent attitude amongst the White Working Class and rightfully so.
Nationally, Romney held a strong edge among white voters with jobs and no college degree: Sixty-three percent favored Romney, compared with 28 percent for Obama.
Obama did much better in union-heavy Ohio, where Obama’s auto bailout has helped keep unemployment a point below the national rate. Fifty-one percent of white voters with no college education preferred the president, compared with 45 percent who backed Romney.
Shuttered steel mills and the Great Recession have drained businesses and jobs from what once were vibrant towns. Many disliked the Obama administration’s stance on the coal industry, which puts food on thousands of tables in the Ohio region. Along the two-lane roads that curl through the hills west of Route 7, yard signs reading “Stop the War on Coal — Fire Obama” were a common sight.
Millie Brown, who tends tables and the grill at a Steubenville truck stop, had some choice words for both candidates. When you make $20,000 a year, she says, every day is a struggle.
“It’s hard to make enough to buy gas to drive to work, let alone pay bills,” she says, pulling on a generic menthol cigarette. “A gallon of milk is $4.29. That’s ridiculous. I never thought I’d see the day when eggs are $2 a dozen.”
Like many others interviewed, Brown says the economy would be much better if Obama had used stimulus funds to give large checks — five, six or even seven figures — to individual working Americans.
The math doesn’t come close to adding up, but this frequent flight of fancy shows how wrong it feels to many of these voters when bailed-out banks pay huge bonuses, or first lady Michelle Obama goes on an expensive trip, or Romney parks some of his millions offshore.
“I’m a white guy with a job. I won’t get no help,” says Tony Gern, a truck driver from Coshocton.
His girlfriend works two jobs, but they are still barely scraping by. Gern came up short one recent month and tried to get some government assistance but was turned down. “A guy that has no job, 10 kids, he can go to the welfare office and they hand him a check,” he says.
But in the final analysis…too many white working class folk saw obama as more of a regular guy than romney and thus Ohio went democratic.
“If I was digging a ditch, Obama would come down and get a little dirty. He’d probably do it with me,” Gern says. “Romney, he wouldn’t do it. He’s never done that kind of work. He’s never had his hands dirty.”
But Romney’s business career is a plus for Russell Banfield and his wife, Betty. The retired couple — he was a coal miner; she was a secretary — are classic Ohio independents who voted for Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama.
Now, they are disappointed by the president’s decisions on the deficit and the stimulus.
“If I have a problem here on my property, will the USA bail us out?” Russell Banfield says, standing outside his one-story house in Belmont, population 453. “We’re on a limited income. We have to make do. Why doesn’t Congress? Why doesn’t the president?”
An hour down the road, behind the cash register of a small market, Debbie Winland greets customers by name as they buy items like spaghetti sauce, beer, hot pepperoni rolls wrapped in foil and high school football tickets. Movies on VHS tape cost $5.
Winland is troubled by bailouts, the stimulus and people who work their whole lives but end up with nothing. Both candidates seem out of touch: “They’re neck and neck, really. Zero to zero,” she says.
“Give me someone to vote for.”