Word: collared
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...coalition--college-educated whites--has also been growing fast. As John Judis and Ruy Teixeira noted in their prescient 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority, professionals now make up almost 20% of the American workforce, far more than in 1972. This fall, for the first time in memory, blue-collar whites may not constitute a majority at the polls...
...four years. And, at least on paper, Ohio looks like a state that should work better for Clinton. It is a far more conservative state than Wisconsin, and lacks Wisconsin's deeply Progressive tradition. Its eight million voters are a stubbornly diverse mix of farmers, factory workers, and white-collar professionals split up among a half dozen large cities, a score of midsize towns and another 50-odd largely rural counties. The Northeast quarter of the state, which includes the old blast furnace towns of Cleveland, Akron and Youngstown, is a Democratic stronghold; the Southeast quarter that hugs the Ohio...
...class; according to polls taken before the election, a majority of both groups planned to vote for her. Only unskilled workers have remained safely in the Labor camp, and theirs is a dwindling breed. Next year, for the first time, blue-collar workers will be outnumbered by white-collar workers in the labor force. Meanwhile, surveys show that voters today are growing less and less likely to vote by class, simply along the lines of bowler hat vs. cloth cap. As if that were not advantage enough for Thatcher, Britain's population is shifting from the big cities that have...
...dream. They're one of the youngest teams in the NBA, yet, at 36-15, have the best record in the fiercely competitive Western Conference. They can light up the scoreboard - the Bees average over 100 points per game - and in crunch time, bear down to play blue-collar defense. They feature an explosive, 6-ft. point guard, Chris Paul, who throws teardrop passes through traffic, buries outside shots with ease, and can score amongst the tall guys down low. He's a legitimate MVP candidate, and a nice guy to boot...
...move toward charging for emissions is likely to prove popular with Livingstone's core supporters - blue-collar workers and a broad sweep of left-leaning metropolitan types concerned about climate change - as well as green campaigners across the world, who laud the congestion-charging scheme he first introduced in February 2003. The original daily $10 toll has been raised to $16, and the charging zone was extended westward last year. The mayor says that if a third of the 33,000 high-emissions cars daily entering central London continue to do so, the new scheme will generate a further...