Despite Obama's billionaire bashing, Democrats lay equal claim to 'party of rich'

The Washington Examiner reports:

The richest county in America, according to IRS data on mean household income, is Teton County, Wyo., home of Jackson Hole. It’s the only Wyoming county Obama won in 2012. And Obama won it big — by 12 points, while losing the rest of the state by more than 40 points.

Seven of the 10 richest counties in America voted for Obama, from Manhattan to Marin. Three sparsely populated counties in Texas made the top 10, and all three voted for Mitt Romney.

Divide up the country by congressional district and you get the same story. Of the 10 richest congressional districts, Democrats represent seven in the House of Representatives. As with counties, congressional districts can be rich in different ways: maybe everyone who lives there is wealthy; maybe the few rich people are extremely rich; maybe there’s just not many poor people.

So, I used three different measures of wealth in comparing congressional districts, and got similar results. Mean household income takes the total income made by everyone in the district and divides it by the number of households. On this count, California’s 18th District in Silicon Valley is the wealthiest with a mean household income of $145,779, according to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Democrat Anna Eshoo represents it, and she won easy re-election last cycle with more than 70 percent of the vote.

Imagine that.