Why focus exclusively on working families?

[Boojatta]

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. Giant voting bloc that is easy to pander to.

That said, the other groups mentioned in your poll probably ought to be brought into the fold if Dems want to win. Together, they outnumber the families. But they're disparate and families are very good at being squeaky wheels.

[undeterred]

2. My state party slogan is "Fighting for working families"

Screw the unmarried, the childless, the unemployed. No health care for you in this state.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. The War on the Rich didn't work now is the time for the War on the Poor

We can win that fight, they're weak.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

4. To qualify for Medicaid in Arizona I can't make more than $850 a month

If I were married or had a child my household could earn twice that much and qualify. I'm not begrudging those people the coverage, at all, but the income cap for a single childless person is absurdly low.

[readmoreoften]

5. To rhetorically differentiate the Democratic party from abortion, welfare, and LGBT rights.

You know: abortion (single women who have sex and get knocked up), welfare (synonymous with the "scary" African-American descendants of slaves as opposed to the "good" and "educated" Black folks who come over from the West Indies and Africa), and LGBT rights (which needs little explaining).

[My Good Babushka]

6. Just about everyone works and is part of a family.

Aren't they? Even single people have parents and siblings. Maybe it makes it easier to discuss what sort of difference proposed legislation would make? I always heard it as a code for the dichotomy of working vs leisure/investor class, and not disparaging of students or singles.