The Conservative Opportunity

Democrats lost white voters without college degrees—a big chunk of the middle class and an important swing vote—by huge margins this month. Why?

Democratic pollster Mark Mellman told the Washington Post that his party had failed to credibly address these voters’ basic economic concerns including wage stagnation and the skyrocketing cost of higher education. “People are deeply suspicious that government can deliver on these problems,” Mellman says. “And they are not wrong. We’ve been promising that government can be a tool to improve people’s economic situation for decades, and by and large, it hasn’t happened.”