THE VALUES GAP

If you read Paul Krugman at the New York Times, and agree with him, you are probably still wondering why an unpopular President, and an out-of-touch party can maintain power with a string of electoral victories. With the economy still not generating a lot of income growth for the middle and lower classes, why don't the Democrats start winning elections?

The answer, I believe, is the values gap. Here is another survey that proves the point. Middle-class Americans, married, with children, holding down a couple of jobs, paying their taxes, sending their kids to public schools, are not voting in sufficient numbers to get a Democrat elected President, or allow the Democrats to take back the Congress. This is because so many of those people are turned off by the "anything goes" popular culture that many of the Democrat Party elite seem to accept, or even embrace. Combined with the growing religiosity of that sector of the population and you get a formula for continued Republican success, even with a soft economy.