Better Off?

Last week’s GOP convention forced a question upon America, and it is a question Republicans will no doubt press until the election. That question is this:

Are you better off now than in 2008/2009?

Good question and the sort of yardstick that can be used to measure for voting for or against a candidate.

CNN.com has a Money page, and I voted (Kris and I are better off than we were when President Obama was elected), and the chart to the right is the result of the one statistic.

Here’s what I observed: CNN.com Money readers/voters are much better off than the national average. 

Notice the number: the average household in 2009 brought in 55K; the average household in 2012 brought in 51K.

Which means the average CNN.com/Money reader/voter is not the average American.

Which leads to this observation — quite unofficial I might say: The average CNN.com reader leans Democrat.

Does this mean Democrats are better off than the average American?