Ugh

Harold Meyerson notes that Democratic support among the white working class has collapsed, with Kerry losing by 23 points. Ruy Teixeira states that Kerry lost among white southern moderates by 15 points, while Clinton won them by 2.

This is deeply disconcerting to me, particularly given that my background happens to be as a white working class southern moderate. I have always believed that the working class should lay at the heart of the Democratic party's concern, and the fact that we are losing them so badly speaks to a real disfunction in either how we run campaigns or (worse) the positions we evince.

Let me put is succintly: there is simply no way the Democrats are ever going to win while losing these two constituencies so badly. I don't want to hear a strategy unless it takes these two (overlapping) groups into account. Ones that don't are just doomed to fail.