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 Originally Posted by rong
Well that's the opposite of what that article is saying. It's saying people who will actually lose out from likely and previous policies have voted for them anyway.
I know. The claim is common.
It's hard to say in what ways it's true, but I think the claim that conservatives vote against their economic interests by voting conservative is not supported by what economists say.
I suspect that what's really going on is that people of all sorts regularly vote against their interests, but on the margins they vote with their wallets. That doesn't mean that everybody votes on economics, because individuals can vote for programs that are bad economically but good for them over the short run.
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