Out-of-Touch Dems Distort Myth of Crazed Mobs

It's been hard to miss the spate of reports about ugly anti-Obama incidents at McCain/Palin events—a crowd member calling him a “terrorist,” for instance. The media is now playing a game of "find a freak" at GOP rallies and grossly distorting the notion of genuine harm coming Obama's way, writes Sean Collins in Spiked. That these fears have gained traction underscores just how alienated Democrats have become from white, working-class voters.

“The Democrats—once seen as the party of the mass of working people—are cut off from, and suspicious of, what once was their base of support. Rather than living among the working class and representing its interests, they are distant and live in fear of it,” Collins writes. “This may work to get their man elected in November, but it comes at the price of further alienating a group that is skeptical about, if not outright hostile, to the Democrats.” (More Sarah Palin stories.)