Fractured alliance

摘要

One thing the Republican Party has usually been able to depend on is the support of well-off capitalists: from Calvin Coolidge's declaration that "the chief business of the American people is business" to George Bush's generous taxrncuts, it has always been pretty clear to wealth-creators which side their bread is buttered on. No longer. With all polls predicting a Democratic sweep of House, Senate and presidency in 2008, the smart money is flowing the Democrats' way.rnA Wall Street Journal poll last month showed that only 37% of professionals and managers identify themselves as Republicans or leaning that way. A YouGov/Polimetrix poll for The Economist finds that only 44% of those earning more than $150,000 plan to vote Republican. So it is no surprise—though historically astonishing—that the Democrats' presidential candidates have raised substantially more than Republican ones.