What else would one expect from the entitlement party who caters to entitlement seekers?
From Ryan Streeter:
In one of those I-can’t-believe-this-guy-won-a-Nobel-prize kinds of posts, Tino Sanadaji gives Paul Krugman a little lesson in how to read data on the voting preferences of welfare recipients. In a recent column Krugman wondered why so many Republican states consume so much welfare. He essentially concludes that welfare dependents have been duped by the GOP or don’t know enough to vote their interests.
He doesn’t factor actual data on voting habits into his calculations, though, so Sanandaji give him a hand. Using data from the Maxwell School’s survey of welfare recipients, which clearly shows that they vote overwhelmingly for Democrats:
