You know, this is a "message" I myself have been hollering ever since I first became politically aware, so many years ago.
Democrats and liberals as a group, and individually, are wealthier than Republicans.
It's a stark fact of life, and there's libraries of statistics to show it.
But even Republicans and conservatives don't seem to get it. It's been like shouting into the winds.
A couple of random examples, out of what must be tens of thousands of examples: the 1994 U.S. Senatorial race in California, pitting incumbent Dianne Feinstein (D) against Michael Huffington (R). The latter was constantly pilloried in the media as being a "rich boy" trying to "buy" a seat in the Senate--a charge which the incumbent herself made, many times.
But the reported wealth of Feinstein considerably outnumbered the reported wealth of Huffington.
Yet Feinstein, even in Republican and conservative circles, was never thought of as "the rich one."
And then there was George Bush and John Kerry during the 2004 presidential race, in which Bush was smeared as a multi-millionaire "playboy." Bush of course was not poor, but on the other hand, his own wealth wasn't even pocket change (I think it was $5.6 million, net) when compared with that of Kerry (with his wife's wealth added in, I think it was $940.0 million, net, at the time).
But this wasn't even an issue, even in Republican and conservative circles.
Damn.
