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nxylas

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6. A lot of working class people think of themselves as middle class
Sun Apr 3, 2016, 05:28 AM
Apr 2016

Experience has shown that when political candidates talk about the suffering middle class, audiences think "he/she is talking about me", whereas if the candidate talks about the working class or the poor, those same audiences will think they're talking about other people.

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