Democrats better for poor than Republicans???

[Harry Vest]

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-...can read the article at realclearpolitics.com

 

[BVS]

 

[VintagePunk]

In his book, Bartels challenges conventional wisdom about American politics in a variety of ways. But his most telling conclusion is that there is a clear partisan pattern to the relationship between incomes of rich and poor. Over the past half-century, he concludes, Republican presidents have allowed the income inequality to expand, while Democratic presidents have not.
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He concludes that income gap increased under presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan and both Bushes, while it declined under four of the five Democratic presidents who have served during this period -- all except Jimmy Carter. That pattern, he asserts, "seems hard to attribute to a mere coincidence in the timing of Democratic and Republican administrations."

It's not conventional wisdom that under the Republicans, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer?

 

[A_Wanderer]

Or the poor get richer and the rich get richer too?

 

[BVS]

It's not conventional wisdom that under the Republicans, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer?

I thought that was one of their slogans...