the headline
Lib's role switch from blue-ribbon to blue-collarThe Article continues,
by George Megalogenis.
Labor, the party of the working class, has officially become the party of choice for intellectuals.
And the Liberals, the party of big business, have switched their electoral identity to become the party for the blue-collar, TAFE-educated voters.
The political about-face is confirmed by new research which shows that Kevin Rudd cannot become Prime Minister unless Labor wins back a cluster of government held seats that are home to voters who are less educated than the national average
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.. Labor has been enjoying a record level of favour with the university educated, while the Liberals under John Howard owe their success to the trades-based blue-collar electorates.
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I just found the concept interesting, and sort of explains why the Rodent seems much more comfortable with the likes of Alan Jones .. than Kerry O'Brien - and why the spate of TV advertisements that are patently aimed at the "more emotional - less informed" sector will be crucial factors in this election.
[Edited, Sat.13. Another thing that have noticed is that the "hard-copy" printed articles have become "online" articles. I put in a link to a newspaper article in a previous post where I mentioned "spelling errors".. those errors have been corrected in the "online" article. Dunno about the significance of that.]
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This wants a bit of explorin' Davo.
It sounds kinda familiar to my counties shift where labor unions, long the base of the democratic party which strength quietly dissolved starting in the 60's and at full tilt in the 70's. by the 80's the Republicans started to pick them up because they were against the immigration and told the story that less taxes for corporations meant more money for payrolls.
Turns out the working stiffs were stiffed but that is another story and some of 'em haven't heard it yet.
Was thinking about this again this aftrnoon, GS. Am not privy to Liberal Party room strategies, but it sort of occurred to me that once upon a time the broad power base/ voting bloc for the Labor Party were the "Unions". Howard has, over the past four or so years, systematically destroyed or diminished the "unions" by various industrial reforms .. individual workplace agreements being one of them.
By splitting the "blue collar" worker away from the unions, and reducing funding for public schools - he has effectively created the disconnected "herd of sheep" that he can manipulate through the media.
Must look into this a bit more, though doubt if there would be much in the way of documentation. Sort of like gazing at a 100 acre pasture paddock and wondering where the four leaf clovers are.
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