The Republicans Are the Party of the Middle Class and Rich; the Democrats Are the Party of the Poor, Middle-class, and Rich

by Andrew Gelman
Politics

Following up on a comment by a reader, the above title is my quick summary of the income/voting graph:

[Cross-posted at The Monkey Cage]

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Andrew Gelman

Andrew Gelman is a professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University.