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JanusIanitos's avatar

"Management" covers a huge swathe of people. Most of them will be no better than upper middle class. Republican policies are bad for all of that group.

That said, a lot of people do vote against their economic self-interest. Just look at how Appalachia votes.

But also, the ward leader's assumptions aren't sound. Especially in a major city, like Philly. The working classes are going to have heavy ideological divides along various lines: ethnicity, age, gender, religion, where they live... A major city is going to have most of that demographic data pointing towards those voters being very heavily left leaning. We're not going to lose some of them because their boss votes the same as them. We might lose some of them for other reasons, but not because of that.

We're picking up more of the managerial class because we're picking up more of the college educated demographics, not because they want to be opposed to voting behavior of the 9-5 workers...

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Caspian's avatar

Remember, the quote is messaging, not necessarily an honest assessment of the ward leader's real opinions.

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