But before we do, let's slum just a little bit longer: now that the election is over, what happened to the white working-class vote this year?
The Communists caused some amusement when they appealed to Labour to withdraw their candidate in order to stop splitting the working-class vote.
The Aliens Act sought to win or retain working-class votes in areas where there was a high volume of immigrants and employment was difficult to achieve.
My impression is that both our scholars are actually talking about the Republicans' inroads into the once solidly Democratic working-class vote since the 1960's.
"He's exposed the whole anti-worker basis of the Republican Party, which had been able to attract a lot of working-class votes."
With 36 per cent of the manual workers' vote in 1987 the party's share of the working-class vote was the highest for any post-war election.
The formation of ILP was not welcomed or supported by the communist leaders arguing that this will lead to a split in the working-class votes.
In Iowa, Santorum picked up some working-class votes, but not as many as you might have thought.
Abbott's leadership would swing Labour firmly to the left and connect more firmly with the working-class vote.
The Protestant paramilitary parties compete with the Paisley party for working-class votes in elections.