"Why Don't The Poor Rise Up?"

Click here for an article at The New York Times entitled "Why Don't The Poor Rise Up," by Thomas B. Edsall. The final paragraph:

The answer is that those bearing the most severe costs of inequality are irrelevant to the agenda-setters in both parties. They are political orphans in the new order. They may have a voice in urban politics, but on the national scene they no longer fit into the schema of the left or the right. They are pushed to the periphery except for a brief moment on Election Day when one party wants their votes counted, and the other doesn’t.

Hmm; "one party wants their votes counted, and the other doesn't"? Which would be Republican and which would be Democratic, do you suppose?