There are certainly plenty of rich Kerry voters, and plenty of poor Bush voters.
Wealthy people tend to vote Republican more than poor people. Poor people tend to vote Democrat more than wealthy people. That's a well documented truth accepted by both parties.
As patrick1 said, if you're George Soros, the tax rate doesn't affect you.
But the point is, just because a Kerry county is rich does not mean that the Kerry voters in that county are the ones with the wealth.
Aha, but unlike other people, you aren't posting any evidence proving your "rich people are Republican" theory.
My city is wealthy. We simply don't have poor people so don't even mention them. We voted 50% Bush and 49% Kerry...and were on the edge of the metro, edges usually leaning Republican.
As Alcon pointed out, cities even richer than mine were hardly "solid Bush," although they did lean him, with the exception of Mercer Island which somehow voted over 60% Kerry...
With the exception of the tiny Medina/Clyde Hill area, I wouldn't qualify any of the "Bush" (him winning by at least 5%) areas as rich.
Counties are a bad example. Precincts are much better. Counties contain a wide range of people, poor and rich. Precincts are much smaller, only including neighborhoods. You can pinpoint a rich neighborhood and not have to worry about poor people.
However, the richest people do lean Republican, nationwide at least. Nation wide, people making over 200K per year voted 63% Bush, in Washington state they voted 64% Kerry. But of course exit polls haven't proven to have been too reliable lately, but perhaps they just over sampled certain groups so these statistics are still somewhat accurate.
