Atrios raises a good point....

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http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_04_23_atrios_archive.html#114581225140559436

"The inability of much of the celebrity pundit class to understand why people can both be doing relatively well (not all people of course) and also be feeling substantial anxiety about the economy has to do with the fact that they long ago left the "paycheck to paycheck" class."

A lot of the "paycheck to paycheck" people are actually quite well-to-do - they're just living right at the far boundary of their means. Those people are every bit as sensitive (in the mathematical/physics sense) to perturbations in costs as any other paycheck-to-paycheck folks.

I wanted to bring it up here because of the common fuck-the-rich sentiment around here (myself included). In this case, those walking-thin-line well-to-doers can be taken as sincere, and generally on our side. This is a class of people that the republicans were surely counting on, that no longer seems like such a done deal for them.