"Latte Liberals v Dunkin Donut Democrats

"Latte Liberals v Dunkin Donut Democrats," Gerard Baker, London Times, February 8

I'm not sure when the term latte liberal replaced the old champagne socialist as the favoured term of derision for the well-heeled leftie but it looks an increasingly useful metaphor for understanding how the deadlock in the Democratic presidential primary election might be broken….
The reason the race is so close has nothing to do with policy differences. I'd wager that not one voter in a hundred could name with any confidence a single difference between the two candidates' stances on the war in Iraq, healthcare, taxes, public spending, abortion or anything else. That's because there isn't one.
The fault lines in the contest instead fall largely along differences in identity—ethnic and gender—and values…. Mrs. Clinton wins heavily among white women, older voters and Latinos. Where they voted in large numbers on Tuesday, she won by large margins. Mr. Obama won states where his following of younger voters, African-Americans and white men predominated….
Mr. Obama wins disproportionately among people who may be considered the winners in the global economy: the well educated, the mobile and the financially secure. Mrs. Clinton's voters are the strugglers, the class that feels itself left behind by an increasingly unfair global economic system.
Consider the exit poll from California, the largest state to vote on Super Tuesday. Mrs. Clinton's largest single demographic voting bloc was those who did not complete a high school education, where she won 82 per cent, against just 15 per cent for Mr. Obama. The more educated you became—from high school drop-out, through high school graduate then some college, college graduate and finally postgraduate—the more likely you were to vote for Mr. Obama. The only category he won, in fact, was the propeller heads with postgraduate degrees….
Mrs. Clinton is the candidate of what might be called Dunkin' Donut Democrats. They do not have money to waste on multiple-hyphenated coffee drinks—double-top, no-foam, non-fat lattes and the like. Not for them the bran muffins or the biscotti. They are the 75-cent coffee and doughnut crowd. For them caffeine choice doesn't correlate with their values but simply represents a means of keeping them going through their challenging day.

By esanch36 on Feb 13, 2008, 12:52 in Off Topic.

aztec says on Feb 13, 2008, 13:37:

Heard this one today:

Taliban Wing of the Liberal Democratic party.

scotty says on Feb 13, 2008, 18:49:

who do you think Bin Ladin would vote for
1. Mccain?
2. Hillary?
3. Obama?

Get Rhythm, when you got the blues. Johnny Cash

esanch36 says on Feb 14, 2008, 06:48:

Obama

All right, I'll ask: How come it took three seconds to euthanize Eight Belles, but the Womens NBA is starting Year 12???

christobeldawg says on Feb 14, 2008, 07:19:

McCain

admittedly, arriving can feel great too

scotty says on Feb 14, 2008, 13:09:

you are right #36 Obama, Iran has already endorsed Obama.

wrong dawg, Bin Ladin, the Russians, Chavez and Iran hate McCain, and that tells you something.

Get Rhythm, when you got the blues. Johnny Cash