Widening gap between Political Class and voters

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• The Political Class is described in Mark Tapscott's article (8/5/10) as follows:

"The Political Class dominates

• government,
  
• the mainstream media,
• corporate boardrooms,
• academia,
• nonprofit activism, and
• the faculty lounge.
  

Theirs is a world of conceptual analyses, bureaucratic edicts and organization charts, elevated sensibilities, and the conventional wisdoms of political correctness.

• The rest of us live and work in the real world."...Mr. Tapscott notes the views of today's Political Class are not sustainable in a democratic republic. He says sooner or later these people and their views will go.
  

8/6/10, Rasmussen polls:

• "The government should be allowed to do most anything."

• Political Class 54% Yes, 43% No

• Likely voters 3% Yes, 94% No

From Rasmussen Report, "There should be limits on what the federal government can do"

• Likely voters 86% Yes, 9% No

"The gap between the Political Class and Mainstream voters is seen in other data as well.

• Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Political Class voters believe the United States is generally
  
• heading in the right direction.

However, among

• Mainstream Voters, 84% say the country has gotten off on the wrong track. ...

"The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on August 3-4, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology."...

• Reference, 8/5, Washington Examiner, "Gulf widening between 'Political Class' and most Americans," Mark Tapscott

• 8/6, "Just 9% want no limits on what federal government can do," Rasmussen Reports