Think Progress: Romney Relied On Wealthy Voters To Win New Hampshire
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney finally secured victory in the New Hampshire primary last night, becoming the first Republican to win both New Hampshire and the Iowa caucus. Incidentally, Romney has many of the wealthiest Granite Staters to thank.
Indeed, as BuzzFeed points out, Romney gained only 4 percent from voters earning less than $100,000 between 2008 and 2012, but he gained 14 percent from people making more than $100,000 in the same time span.
The fact that Romney relied on the wealthy to win is not surprising. His economic plan is set to deliver a massive $6.6 trillion tax cut to the richest 1 percent and corporations, a cut that is 100 times more than what his plan offers middle-income Americans. Indeed, nearly three-fourths of households that make $200,000 or less a year would get “literally nothing” from his plan which — incidentally — actually raise taxes on half of middle-class families with children.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/01/11/402273/romney-relied-on-wealthy-voters-with-upscale-interests-like-gourmet-cooking-to-win-new-hampshire/
Romney support increases as you go up the income scale. Not surprising. It did surprise me that Ron Paul's support was highest at the low end of the income scale then decreased as voters got richer. For the other republicans there wasn't much of a link between voter income and support for the candidate.
