I voted Republican, but it's pretty close to a push.
You don't win elections by letting the other team be more blue collar.
Then if say there was a election in 2012 such as Ron Paul/John Stossel vs Barack Obama/Joe Biden, how would they vote then?
In 2008? Probably Obama. Right message at the right time. Biden's a goober but he's a blue collar-friendly goober.
In 2012? Tossup, I'd give a slight edge to Paul until he goes tinfoil hat and scares the bejeezus out of the blue collar types. Blue collar types don't like message without delivery.
I wouldn't consider Ron Paul to be a prototypical blue collar candidate, though. He's a bit of a wonky and weird doctor-as-small-businessman thing.
I don't see Paul doing well with blue collar either. He's socially conservative but has appeal to 9/11 truthers and wants to bring back the gold standard.
Yes, that was my point. He would take the lead because "he says interesting stuff about money" and "the n***** isn't doing sh** to fix things".
Well, if they see this stuff about economics, they would outright not vote at all. Unless there some southern racist like a George Wallace or Storm Thurmond running for president, the blue collars would vote for the racist.
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