I share this article not because of the title, rather because of the fact-rich content.  It is one of the very best I have come across on the facts of current socio-economic fabric of U.S.

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The Obama Coalition

Thomas Byrne Edsall - Apr 1 2010, 8:00 AM ET

Thomas B. Edsall is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and political editor of the Huffington Post. He covered national politics for the Washington Post for 25 years.

 

Over the last two years, there has been a massive increase in the number of people who have no place to turn except to the government. Enactment of the Obama administration’s health care reform legislation demonstrates the growing power of this burgeoning constituency—a constituency which will reap a disproportionate share of the $1 trillion in new health care spending over the next decade.

Continues @ The Atlantic

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It is a very long article. Take your time reading it.