I wonder if what you're saying about working-class people voting against candidates perceived as intellectual is actually true. Could that not be a distortion caused by looking only at recent history? I'll grant you that Bush comes across as a regular guy even though he's not one, but surely everyone knew Clinton was a Rhodes scholar and a very clever fellow, and if there was ever a candidate who screamed "money" out of every pore, it was Bush the elder. Reagan? He was a movie star fercryinoutloud! How "regular guy" can that be?

I suppose you could say that Carter came across like a regular guy. Nixon sure didn't though, nor Johnson, and of course to suggest that about JFK is just silly.

I don't think that dog will hunt, honestly.