David Rohde doesn't think either party is up to the task of helping the middle class survive:
The Democratic party's failure to dramatically reform Medicare and Social Security, for example, undermines its argument that government can be lean and effective. At the same time, the global elite's prosperity is not magically trickling down as supply-side Republicans predict.
Chris Cillizza reminds us why the middle class is such an important voting bloc:
Since 2004, neither party has received less than 46 percent or more than 53 percent of the middle class vote, evidence of the middle class as a barometer of the divided nature of the country as a whole.
(Chart: The percentage of the vote the two parties have won among voters whose household income is somewhere between $30,000 and $100,000 in the last four national elections, by Cillizza)
The Dish 