Michael Barone, whom I've already linked to today, is at his best when he closely analyzes an election to see who voters really are. In the recent Massachusetts election, the "educated classes" and upscale voters went for the Democrats. They have a "quasi-religious" belief in government bureaucrats' ability to allocate health care resources, as they like to say. But voters in middle-income suburbs voted for Scott Brown. That left the "educated classes" sputtering in their cappuccinos, or something.

Barone says, "In a race where the Republican promised to be the decisive vote to kill the Democrats' health care bills, working class and minority voters did not rally to save them."