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title: "11 Class Voters Quotes by 11 authors"
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> [Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/najib-razak/economic-progress-and-better-education-have-directly-resulted-in-the/)

[Najib Razak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/najib-razak/)

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> [Donald Trump is accomplishing getting, particularly white, working-class voters, who are turned off by their own party.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joy-ann-reid/donald-trump-is-accomplishing-getting-particularly-white-working/)

[Joy-Ann Reid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joy-ann-reid/)

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> [Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kellyanne-conway/usually-based-on-an-economic-agenda-white-working-class-voters-don-t/)

[Kellyanne Conway](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kellyanne-conway/)

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> [Biden's ability to resonate with white working class voters has long been touted as one of his major strengths.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-tarlov/biden-s-ability-to-resonate-with-white-working-class-voters-has-long/)

[Jessica Tarlov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-tarlov/)

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> [White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-shields/white-working-class-voters-or-working-class-voters-have-felt/)

[Mark Shields](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-shields/)

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> [A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-reade/a-public-school-educated-stockbroker-who-wants-to-shrink-the-state/)

[Brian Reade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-reade/)

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> [Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-wilder/since-the-heady-days-of-the-2009-inauguration-middle-class/)

[Douglas Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-wilder/)

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> [From my perspective, we actually have to have a stronger, bolder economic message that's not just for white working-class voters, but for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neera-tanden/from-my-perspective-we-actually-have-to-have-a-stronger-bolder/)

[Neera Tanden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neera-tanden/)

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> [I've stood in rooms in urban, rural, and suburban parts of my state and asked a room of middle class voters to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-kander/i-ve-stood-in-rooms-in-urban-rural-and-suburban-parts-of-my-state-and/)

[Jason Kander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-kander/)

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> [So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-mayer/so-you-ve-got-these-regular-middle-class-voters-who-don-t-hate-the/)

[Jane Mayer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-mayer/)

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> [If you want to really sort of quantify the dereliction of the Republican establishment, those two facts are the most important two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-hayes/if-you-want-to-really-sort-of-quantify-the-dereliction-of-the/)

[Chris Hayes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-hayes/)

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