>I really really want to ask about some of those, but I'll refrain and stick to only a couple 'less inflamatory' ones:
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>1) What's the difference between a 'male' and a 'maler?'
>2) What's the difference between a 'female' and a 'femaler?'

Not much, but only in Massachusetts.

> What am I? :o)

As usual, the exception. ;-)

But you know how data is. There is no 'typical' male/r or female/r voter when you examine 1, 2, or a 100. After thousands though, a reliable pattern may reveal itself.

And again, among personal friends it has been quite reliable in predicting who they support. For instance, I maintain life-long friendships with people I grew up with from an area of town that has now-declining subdivisions built fresh in the 50s-60s, malls that white people used to shop in, several huge Southern Baptist churches and Catholic parishes, limited higher ed and professional occupations amongst these friends and they still live in this area, like their parents. I've played music professionally (week-end warrior only) since high school but you'd very rarely catch one of this group of friends in a bar/live music venue, and many of them are currently or have previously devoted serious attempts at making a go of various multi-level marketing businesses. Some of them even feel certain contemporary issues such as global warming are non-starters because they confidently believe Jesus is returning during their own lifetime, rendering curbing CO2 a wasted effort. I've long since moved from that area and have established residence and lifelong friendships with people of other, an no, faiths, wildly varying incomes and "lifestyles", can't swing a cat without hitting a post-grad, gentrified neighborhoods with sidewalks and street festivals, non-chain restaurants, still a few churches but also synagoges, a mosque and yes, lots of bar/live music venues, private schools that are not religion-based, and the occasional green-haired young dude on a skateboard. And this area voted Yes for increased funding of our libraries Ok, that's as succinct as I can get and remain brief. Nonetheless, I'll let you guess which candidates signs are found in the respective neighborhoods. Now, what am I? Fun, huh? haha.

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>MSNBC article on 'middle class' :
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>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21272238/

Interesting. Thanks Tracy!
Steven-