Racial divide on which candidate would help middle class

Middle-class white voters who are struggling financially favor GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney over President Obama by 58 to 32 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Middle-class nonwhite voters prefer Obama by a better than 3-1 majority. Among all voters, 50 percent think that Obama would do more to advance the economic interests of middle-class Americans, compared with 44 percent who think Romney would do more. Of those surveyed, 68 percent think Romney would do more to advance the interests of the wealthy.