"they cling to their guns, and to their religion, and to antipathy toward people who aren't like them" B Obama, San Francisco, on what he really thinks of voters.

And how is this more "elitist" than dismissing coastal urban dwellers as wine-sipping degenerates? Note: "Read Thomas Sowell!!" will not be accepted as an answer, no matter how shrilly you or Kazillions choose to bleat it. What exactly qualifies the "middle-American" voter to disqualify the rest of us no less vehemently (in fact, quite a bit more so) than that out of context quote could be said to do them?