working class. >> in the name of the hard-working americans who make up our forgotten middle class, i proudly accept your nomination for president of the united states. >> bill clinton is the sort of emblematic figure in the transition of the democratic party from the party that cares about working-class middle-class people to a party that is very much concerned with the innovation, economy, and wall street and all that. >> frank's right. the democratic party did change during bill clinton's presidency. bill clinton made the party a bigger tent. and into that big democratic tent went the elites of america. its lawyers and doctors and stockbrokers. but let's remember, clinton essentially tied his republican opponents in the white working-class demographic in both 1992 and 1996. so why did the white working