It is asserted  by the left that the Democratic party champions the poor and seeks to better their situation.  In conjunction with this assertion, the Democrats also advocate that the Republican party is one in which their interest lies in championing the wealthy.  They assert that the propensity for people to vote Republican increases with an associated increase in income.

When one looks at the election, many of the wealthiest sectors of society voted for Obama.  Therefore, this assertion is not borne out by the facts.  Bill Gates, Movie Stars and wealthy counties in N.Y., Florida, California, the states with the highest concentrations of  wealth voted primarily for Obama.

This seems counter intuitive until one considers that vast numbers of low income people also voted for Obama.  Logic would then dictate that the Democratic party is a primarily a duel income demographic as it consists of a mix of  the extremely wealthy and the lower income demographic.  A demographic wherein the number of lower income people out number the higher income people.

Since elections rely upon the greater accumulation of votes in order to secure a victory,  logic dictates that under the condition of the assertion that Republicans are the party of the wealthy to be true, the greater the number of people who are wealthy would benefit the Republicans.  Their interest would then lie in increasing the incomes of those who are poor as it would diminish the support of the Democrats in their largest demographic income sector.

Conversely, the  interest of the Democrat party to maintain their largest demographic( low income) would best be achieved by maintaining their largest voting  base at a lower income level and thereby avoid losing voters whose propensity  to vote Republican in direct, positive correlation to their increase in income level is greater .

This assertion is supported by the evidence that in population sectors where income levels are lowest are Democrat.  In addition, the fact that sectors, such as largely Democrat inner-city sectors, have remained poor for decades also supports this assertion as being actual.  Therefore, the party that actually benefits the poor while achieving their goal of winning elections is the Republican party. 

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