Election night a commentator was drawing circles around all the areas in
Ohio that Obama had to win big. It dawned on me that every Obama area was the
area where there were jobs. I started checking and comparing other areas and it
holds out. Richer areas with a positive job market vote Blue. Poorer areas
where it is much tougher to find a job vote red.
Here in the DC Area we are at nearly full employment and this area voted
overwhelmingly for Obama Recently a boss moved my seat over my protest. Two
weeks later I was sitting in a new office for a different company for
$20,000.00 per year more. To say the job market is Hot Hot Hot is an
understatement. But back home in Williamsport Pa. the situation is very
different. If you have a job you thank God and you can live well for half of
what it costs in the Baltimore Washington area. But if you lose your job you
may be in very deep trouble. Needless to say Romney won big in Williamsport.
People who call themselves Conservative often suggest that poor people and
welfare mooches elect Obama. That is not really the case. Look at the election
map. Working people confidant that the system works elected Obama. The Red
voters are less sure of their future and realize just how tenuous is their
grasp of financial security. If this is not true then tell me why 30 years ago
Philadelphia voted heavily Democratic and the wealthy white suburbs Bucks,
Delaware, Chester and Montco voted solidly Republican. But now Philadelphia and
all its suburbs are in the Blue camp. Are college Professors mostly Dems
because they are God-Hating Pinko Comies or is it because they have tenure they
feel financially secure. Now I will grant that some of them are God-Hating
Pinko Comies but it is bigger than the stereotypes can account for.
I am a Christian a Conservative and a Democrat with a wife and children
that I love. I am slightly to the right of Barry Goldwater who if he were alive today would be derided as a RINO and would be driven from the Republican Party like
Arlen Spector was.
