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High hopes for the Liberal Democrats also proved unfounded. Expected to siphon off blue-collar and middle-class votes from both major rivals, the party instead ended up losing two of its 22 seats. The disappointing showing owed much to alarmist Tory warnings that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would be tantamount to a vote for Labour, since a hung Parliament would surely result in a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition. British voters did not want the uncertainty of either a minority or coalition government. Voters may also have become convinced -- Ross Perot, take note -- that a vote...
...release a detailed analysis of recent census data, and the Democrats can't wait to trumpet the economic findings. For the first time in postwar history, average wages and benefits have declined for four years straight, says the institute. Perhaps worse: wages of college-educated Americans, women and white-collar workers -- whose votes are crucial -- have been declining. Assuming Americans vote their pocketbooks, Democrats stand to gain...
...unique feature of the current recession, Medoff said, is that whitecollar workers are also suffering, as seen in the soaring unemployment rate among this class of workers. During the previous three recessions--which the economist classified as "blue-collar"--the percentage of unemployed white-collar workers actually declined...
...morning I visit Felix and the battered radio is tuned to a Greek station broadcasting out of Lynn. Felix wears black wool pants, a short-sleeved office shirt open at the collar, anonymous black shoes, and a blue denim smock smudged with glue stains. He is rebuilding the worn toe of a woman's two-hundred-dollar cobalt-blue Salvatore Ferragamo...
...white collar" employees of the Globe, 42 percent are women, and 44 percent of recent promotions have been given to women, Nyhan said...