April Purple Poll: CO Tie; VA O+2; OH O+5; FL R+2

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Speaking of which, here we go. Wealthy people in Gladwyne are very eager to support Mitt Romney to safeguard themselves from higher tax.

http://mainlinemedianews.com/articles/2012/05/01/main_line_times/news/doc4fa07fee48681475319486.txt



Of course many of these people were Obama voters last time around. Not anymore!

Umm, the article you're posting is about a Romney fundraising event.

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Back to the demographic question...
According to the exit polls, whites over 50k went from 56R-43D in 2008, to 61R-37D in 2010. Not exactly an overwhelming change. Nonwhites over 50k likewise went from 75D-22R to 69D-29R.
All in all, typical of the shift from presidential-year turnout to midterm turnout where one party's supporters are more excited about voting. Obviously, if the 2012 electorate looks like the 2010 electorate, Obama's screwed; if it looks like the 2008 electorate, he's doing fine.
(I'd talk about voters over 100k, but those aren't broken down by race in the exit polls, and as you can see from the 50k+ numbers, race matters at higher income levels just as it does at lower income levels).