Turn on the news, and you’ll be treated to nonstop talk of polling and voting blocs. The jabbering heads have numbers for black voters, Hispanic voters, young voters, old voters. They have numbers for every group imaginable — well, almost every group. The tragedy of polling is that the pollsters who choose which lines to divide us on aren’t very imaginative.
If I were a pollster, I would throw out tired, cliché identity groups and measure brand new identity groups like “people who wear hard hats all day every day,” “people whose feet hurt when they get home,” and “people who are stretching their paychecks and hoping they won’t snap.” ...
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