Will the Democrats’ covid-19 bill help them win over lower-income whites?

They have traditionally ignored the benefits of lefty economic policy in favor of other issues. That could be changing.

For as long as I’ve been writing about and studying public opinion (granted, four years is not that long), lower-income white votes have engaged in seemingly-paradoxical behavior: voting for Republicans. Past research suggests that this pattern has been going on much longer — like, since I’ve been alive (again, for some of you, that might not be very lo…