middle class" voter. It wasn't so much that they "switched votes dramatically" from the Republicans to the Democrats, but that they voted rather than stayed at home.
Except that I said, "as groups," where groups are defined by the categories in the exit polls. Did you analyze the exit polls or are just shooting from the hip? There's an internal dynamics in each group. Individuals may drop out of a group or join it like individual cells in a tissue or body die while others are born, or members of a species... etc.
The entire language of shifting votes between the major parties is based on a series of assumptions that have little solid foundation.
Your entire objection is based on a misunderstanding.
