I'm always amused when Democrat's claim to be the party of the working man when in reality most of the Democrats are multi-millionaires, and most of their campaign contributions come from a few wealthy people. The Democrats have been successful at spreading the image that they are the party of the poor with much help from the media, the leading members of which are now themselves quite wealthy; if you don't beleive that, check out the salary of Katie Couric and other anchors. It is not surprising that the rich are Democrats. Historically the rich want more government regulation. They want to freeze society so they remain on top. This is why Ted Kennedy and John Kerry favor a European style socialism which freezes everyone's economic status. They then don't have to work to remain on top of the heap. No "upstarts" will be able to displace them. Such limiting of economic opportunity will not be good for the economy as a whole, but it will make them more secure. If the United States had had in force the policies of France, which Democrats like, then, for example, IBM would still be king of the computer world, and would still be as staid and inert as they were before Microsoft. But, the American economy would be stalled like that of France. Below is an intersting article from Dissecting Leftism about Democrat's actually being the party of the wealthy:

Political fallacies: "The grand political fallacy of the age is that the Republicans are the party of wealth, while the Democrats are the party of compassion for the little guy. This is something that has been assumed and repeated so often that it has become a "well-known fact" without any hard evidence being asked for or given. In the 2000 elections, the counties that voted for Bush had a smaller percentage of their population with annual incomes over $100,000 than the counties that voted for Gore. The Bush counties also had a higher percentage of their population earning under $30,000 a year. It has become axiomatic in the liberal media that big-money donors give most of that big money to the Republicans. But the hard data show that the top ten donors to political campaigns gave far more to the Democrats, with the lone exception being the National Association of Realtors, who gave 50 percent to the Democrats and 49 percent to the Republicans."