This kind of thing wouldn't be so bad if the entire Going Rogue enterprise weren't Going Over-Kill on the "average, everyday, hard-workin', joe six-pack, real America" stuff.
Sarah Palin is an elite.
There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's the American dream to become an elite.
Barack Obama came from a broken home to the White House. Sarah Palin came from Wasilla to Washington's Alfalfa Dinner.
The problem is when you punish success by calling it elitism. Since when did punishing success become the Republican party's creed?
Maybe that's why the party is losing so many educated professionals. Their education and professions apparently disqualify them from being "hard working", and their 10013 zip codes preclude them from being "real Americans".
Michael Barone, after analyzing 2008 election results.
A final uncomfortable realization is that the affluent suburbs have, outside the South and even in parts of the South -- North Carolina's Research Triangle, metro Orlando -- become Democratic. Nationally, McCain ran even with Barack Obama among voters with incomes over $50,000 and over $100,000. He actually ran behind among voters with incomes over $200,000. Obama carried narrowly those with college degrees and ran far ahead among those with graduate degrees.
The debate among Republicans is whether to go after downscale or upscale voters.... But my examination of the exit poll results and county-by-county election returns has led me to conclude tentatively that going upscale is the right move. As David Frum has pointed out, we're going to have more well-educated and millennial-generation voters in the future and fewer less-educated and Baby Boomers (among whom McCain ran even).
[Hat tip: CBS Political Hot Sheet]
