How important is class to your support, criticism, or lack of support for the Obama administration?

[mix]

How does your socio-economic reality affect your opinions about the current White House.

[rug]

1. It is the single most important factor.

All politics flows from that.

[mix]

2. Those who say "It is not important,"

I wonder where they are coming from socio-economically...

[IndianaGreen]

14. Exactly!

The interests of the investor class are never in alignment with those of the working class. Many investors profited on account of factories and jobs being sent overseas.

[Laelth]

17. Agree that it is extremely important. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[patrice]

3. You can't control for that which you are unaware of. nt

[mix]

7. mysteriously unclear, my friend nt

[patrice]

11. If there's a skew in your data, you can't identify the significance of the data, unless you know

what's skewing it, in this case, class. You NEED to be able to recognized that it IS skewed, in the first place, and, then, what is skewing it.

If you don't factor for class in your perceptions, your perceptions, though likely reliable, will be invalid anyway, since the data is skewed by class and doesn't, therefore, represent a more holistic reality. That's a bad thing, because the function of perception is survival and you need reality to survive.

Since class is inescapable, it's effect upon perception is very important.

[patrice]

12. You can't control for that of which you are unaware . . . I'm a little tired; there's probably a

better way to say it.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. For me, it is about polices not class...

I support labor and have, in the past, been a member of a union. But at this time in my life I am not working class.

[CBR]

5. I think it plays a role but is not a defining factor.

My husband is a pre-k teacher, I am in grad school (so we dont make a lot of money) he is black, I am white, we rent, we are both pretty generally supportive of the Prez.

[stray cat]

6. Meaning in you are classy or not classy?

[mix]

8. no nt

[Hosnon]

9. Nothing is more important. nt.

[TheKentuckian]

10. Probably a legitimate but not a determining factor.

Those that are better off are much more likely to be comfortable with the status quo and indeed invested in it.
Therefore, such people are much less demanding (or indeed interested) in substantial systemic change.

The bigger factors, in my opinion, is "school" of economics, general trust and comfort with authority, and faith in established systems and institutions.

[tledford]

13. Your question is unclear.

How important is *my* socio-economic class? Or how important is my knowledge that there has been an all-out assault on the working and middle classes that Obama seems disinterested in reversing?

Two different questions. Which is your intent to ask?

[mix]

18. Your own. nt

[depakid]

15. It's going to be important to voters in the key battleground states, that's for sure

if the economy ends up in a double dip with a largely jobless "recovery" that will prove to be interesting when 2012 rolls around.

[chollybocker]

16. I've been very rich and I've been very poor

(not necessarily in that order), yet my political views have remained constant.

My bank balance does not dictate or sway my political opinions.

[Jennicut]

19. Somewhat important but my husband and I are doing pretty well right now,

well enough that I could stay home with my kids and go back to school at night. I would say, when I go back to work, things will be even better.
I also grew up in a rich town in Connecticut, though my family was more middle class. Of course, middle class in Cheshire, CT is different then middle class in other areas. But I have always been a liberal, since I could argue with my Republican overly sheltered parents. I got out of that town and learned an awful lot. (And, I really hated growing up there with lots of rich, snobby BMW driving kids. Ugg).