Re: Nick Cohen on Thomas Frank

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

At 9:02 AM -0700 9/14/04, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> But Franks' Kansas "cons" are not the best paid workers, who by, the
> way, are unionized (taking workers to include ordinary blue collar
> workers, white collar professionals excluding the absurdly overpaid
> like me, and pink collar clerics).

It's not surprising that the working class are politically divided --
that has always been the case, and that will always be the case, in
Kansas and elsewhere.

The question I have is whether Franks offers detailed statistics
about support for the Republicans among Kansan workers in general and
unionized Kansan workers in particular.

Here's what I got from CNN:

EXIT POLLS FOR KANSAS |  RESULTS how to read exit polls
NATIONAL > Results as of 8:15 p.m. EST |

Income            All   Gore   Bush
Under $15,000     6 %   77 %   23 %
$15-30,000        20 %  40 %   60 %
$30-50,000        33 %  31 %   69 %
$50-75,000        24 %  34 %   66 %
$75-100,000       8 %   19 %   81 %
Over $100,000     9 %   17 %   83 %

<http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/epolls/KS/P000.html>

Even in generally conservative Kansas, workers making less than
$15,000 went 77% for Gore and only 23% for Bush, and support for Bush
was the highest (83%) among those making over $100,000.

In 1999, households making less than $15,000 were 15% of the
population in Kansas ("Kansas Demographic Profile,"
<http://webs.wichita.edu/depttools/depttoolsmemberfiles/cedbr/Trends.pdf>).
So, the Democratic Party's strategy in Kansas should have been to
target the lowest income population and more than double their
turnout, but it didn't do so because that's not in its nature.

According to the FEC at
<http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/2000presge.htm#KS>, in Kansas,
Nader drew 3.36% of the votes, and if I lived in Kansas, I would
begin by identifying those 36,086 hardy souls and trying to turn them
into activists for the Green Party or some other political party on
the left:

KANSAS
Bush, George W. R
622,332
58.04

Gore, Al D
399,276
37.24

Nader, Ralph I
36,086
3.36
--
Yoshie

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