Seriously, Harold Meyerson should be hired by the NY Times. His editorials are that funny!

The relationship between Barack Obama and the white working class is beginning to resemble that between Ahab and the white whale. In state after state (Ohio, Pennsylvania and now Indiana), Obama sets out to reel in his working-class quarry, and, in state after state, it eludes him. As Obama is still the likely nominee, many Democrats fear that come November, working-class whites will pull Obama and their party down to defeat.

Obama’s problem, and the Democrats’, goes well beyond the malignant nonsense of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Ever since the New Deal coalition was smashed on the reefs of race in the mid-1960s, working-class white support for Democratic presidential candidates has hemorrhaged. Though he won a plurality of the popular vote, Al Gore lost the white working class by 17 points in 2000; John Kerry lost it by 23 points four years later. Even though, as Ruy Teixeira of the Brookings Institution and Alan Abramowitz of Emory University demonstrated in a recent paper, the white working class is becoming an ever smaller share of the overall electorate, it will remain large enough through the middle of the century that the Democrats cannot afford to lose it by Kerry like margins. But how, Democrats wonder, can they secure the white working-class vote?

How can they? Wait for it, wait for it………

Well, they could start by re-unionizing it.

He’s serious. Read the rest of it, and you will see.

They are losing the white working class because of the elitist attitudes, the constant disingenuous pandering to everyone, particularly minority groups, the constant “America SUCKS!” rhetoric emanating from DNC, the elected Dems, and the Base of the Democrat Party, their pro-criminal stances, and their trying to turn America into a Nanny and Welfare state.

The GOP loses the white middle class (as well as other voter blocks) because they do not practice what they preach. The Democrats lose the white middle class because they do practice what they preach.

Unionizing sounds more like a way of strong arming the members into voting a certain way. And it is easier to pander to unions. So, instead of addressing what the white middle class really wants, Meyerson is proposing that the Democrats artificially create new voting blocks. Great.