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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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In reply to the discussion: Biden to adopt Bernies plan of Free college and Warrens bankruptcy plan.................... [View all]BidenBacker
(1,089 posts)59. How's this for starters?
https://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/economic-demographics-republicans/
Income
Financially, Republicans fare better than either Democrats or Independents, and tend to identify themselves as such. Republican candidates gain a significantly higher percentage of votes from individuals with incomes over $50,000 per year, and the advantage increases along with the income level, to a height of 63 percent of individuals earning $200,000 or more a year supporting Republicans. This level is the direct inverse of individuals earning less than $15,000 a year, who support Democrats at 63 percent and Republicans at only 36 percent.
Republicans also express a much higher level of satisfaction with their personal financial situation than either Democrats or Independents. Before the U.S. economys downturn, an all-time high of 81 percent of Republicans expressed satisfaction with their personal financial situation. That number dropped to 61 percent in 2009, but it is still significantly higher than the corresponding 52 percent of Independents and 49 percent of Democrats. A much larger proportion of Republicans than Democrats also identify themselves as haves versus have-nots.
High earners vote Republican almost 2-to-1 than for Dems. Guess it's all them liberal movie stars and performers with a conscience who bring it down some...LOL.
Income
Financially, Republicans fare better than either Democrats or Independents, and tend to identify themselves as such. Republican candidates gain a significantly higher percentage of votes from individuals with incomes over $50,000 per year, and the advantage increases along with the income level, to a height of 63 percent of individuals earning $200,000 or more a year supporting Republicans. This level is the direct inverse of individuals earning less than $15,000 a year, who support Democrats at 63 percent and Republicans at only 36 percent.
Republicans also express a much higher level of satisfaction with their personal financial situation than either Democrats or Independents. Before the U.S. economys downturn, an all-time high of 81 percent of Republicans expressed satisfaction with their personal financial situation. That number dropped to 61 percent in 2009, but it is still significantly higher than the corresponding 52 percent of Independents and 49 percent of Democrats. A much larger proportion of Republicans than Democrats also identify themselves as haves versus have-nots.
High earners vote Republican almost 2-to-1 than for Dems. Guess it's all them liberal movie stars and performers with a conscience who bring it down some...LOL.
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Biden to adopt Bernies plan of Free college and Warrens bankruptcy plan.................... [View all]
riversedge
Mar 2020
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One of the things I admire about Joe is his ability to listen and adopt/adapt other's ideas
Siwsan
Mar 2020
#1
Biden has been proposing climate change legislation since 1986, long before most people had
LongtimeAZDem
Mar 2020
#7
Ya, HRC did the same thing, now Bernie people run around saying they are Sanders. Whatever.
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#13
I still have no idea why he backed off that when he first announced, it soured me on him a bit
Celerity
Mar 2020
#20
Because there are a lot of centralists who think we can't afford education even as the Pentegon ...
marble falls
Mar 2020
#27
Wasn't Bernie's plan to offer free tuition to everyone, including millionaires and billionaires?
beastie boy
Mar 2020
#8
Egos and all. The Democratic plan has always been more reasonable and responsible than Sanders
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#15
Biden Is A Team Player and Understands All The Candidates Need to Have A Win for Their Supporters
Indykatie
Mar 2020
#9
That's leadership Reviewing the ideas of others, giving them credit and saying "yes, let's do that"
riversedge
Mar 2020
#10
My only disappointment with Joe is he is very cold on legalization (as was Barack) ...
marble falls
Mar 2020
#18
That's sort of a Republican style response, but remember Bush's DEA busting medical pot ...
marble falls
Mar 2020
#31
I am sorry I made that seem I was calling you Republican. I only use that on Donnie ...
marble falls
Mar 2020
#55
Free college to all is not the right thing to do. Universities would be overwhelmed and it would
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#17
No Biden adopted Warren's college plan...Sanders want us to pay for private college and billionaires
Demsrule86
Mar 2020
#16
Correct. And the Democratic plan. Democrats have been proposing this all along.
LizBeth
Mar 2020
#19
He's putting together a very strong and detailed platform. He's going to kill Trump with the ...
marble falls
Mar 2020
#25
I get the feeling Bernie & Joe, or at least their campaign aids, have been talking
onetexan
Mar 2020
#34