November 7, 2008

Wooing the White Working-Class Voter

Compiled By EVAN R. GOLDSTEIN

The end of the presidential election will bring not just a new administration and Congress but also, perhaps, some closure to a debate that has been raging over a book published in April. The issue: Is the hype over what voters in Kansas supposedly want (traditional "family values," personified by conservative Republicans, according to some commentators) simply wrong?

"The familiar image of a party system transformed by Republican gains among working-class cultural conservatives turns

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