When it comes down to it, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats to handle the number one issue on voters’ minds: the economy.  Republicans are also more trusted on the issues of healthcare, education, immigration, national security and taxes.  What does that leave the Democrats with?  Social security.  Voters trust the Democrats to protect Social Security more than Republicans.  Never mind about offering greater retirement incomes through individual ownership of retirement accounts … evil privatization!  And ignore the fact that Republicans have made it very clear that benefits for people age 55 and up should be protected during any transition to privately owned accounts.  Social Security has created an electorate absolutely dependent on Democrats.  Without Democrats old people will be sleeping, starving and dying in the streets. 

The Democrat Party is essentially made up of two distinct groups: First you have those who think they know how to best spend someone else’s money; and then you have  those who want someone else’s money to spend.  Who does that leave in the middle?  Pretty much you.  People who want to earn their own money and decide how they spend it.  That would be another way to define white middle class voters .. and the Democrats are writing you off in the next election; or so it seems. 

Democrat analysts by the name of Stanley Greenberg and Ruy Teixeria have determined that these white working class voters are “unattainable” for Obama in 2012.  Instead the Democrats will focus on the other two groups I described above: “On the one hand, voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.”

Ultimately it will boil down to this, according to these Democrat analysts: “Will the president hold sufficient support among communities of color, educated whites, Millennials, single women, and seculars and avoid a catastrophic meltdown among white working-class voters?”

Those left supporting Obama will not be doing so based on his record.  That is foolhardy.  Those left to support Obama in this election are those interested in the legal plunder of the achievers under the guise of moral superiority.  Or just flat-out ignorance.