Why has the middle class woken up? Is it the OWS movement? Is it the GOP

[applegrove]

slate of morons? Is it that Romney has started to lie about Obama in such a blatant fashion to attract tea partiers, he has disgusted independants? Probably a little bit of all of them. Can anyone think of anything else that has contributed to the Middle Class wake up that has given Obama almost 50% support so early in the Presidential race (usually an incombent president is 10 points behind the nominees of the other party at this stage)?

[canoeist52]

1. Um... because the middle class is broke?

[applegrove]

2. Yup. But last year, a lot of the broke middle class voted in Tea Partiers. Now suddenly people

are interested in the truth (and thus more support democrats).

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I'd recommend at seeing the breakdown in the tea party

and ows. There are significant demographic differences.

That said, while the T party emerged a week after the swearing in... it did emerge, partly, in response to the same social forces behind ows... partly. They were co-opted within two weeks and even older WHITE RETIRED Americans who have no problem with Medicare but do question Pell Grants, are starting to realize that we have a problem in DC. In fact, they've known it for a while. Why those conversations between T Parties (rank and file) and OWSers have been so positive. This is scaring the living daylights out of the Republicans in particular and the elites in general.

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. General outrage from several sources.

As you say, the increasingly sleazy GOP slimefest is certainly motivating many...!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. All of the above, different combos different weeks

even days.