Karlyn Bowman over at the E.B.:

Tom Edsall has a very interesting piece in The New Republic on Obama’s winning coalition of the upscale and downscale and how problematic it could be for him legislatively. He cites a recent Gallup analysis that caught my eye, too. The lowest income group (those with household incomes of less than $30,000 a year) would urge their Congressman to vote for the healthcare bill by a 17-point margin; the highest income group ($75,000 or more) would urge their member to vote against it by a 13-point margin. Edsall says the split could have implications for other legislation including cap-and-trade and card check. His bottom line: the Democrats need to try harder to regain the middle. The Gallup responses, based on an aggregate of three polls, had some other dramatic findings; only in the East did more respondents favor than oppose the plan. Postgrads, one of the most left-leaning groups in the electorate, wanted their member to support it by a margin of 9 points; college grads wanted their member to oppose it by 17. Those with a high school education or less and the “some college” group were evenly split. Seniors, critically important in this debate, urged opposition by 10 points. On this issue and others, young people are less engaged than they were during the election. More of them had no opinion (41 percent) than wanted their member to support (36 percent) or oppose (23 percent) it.