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Obama Abandons the Working Class
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Nov 29, 2011 01:17pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Author | WILLIAM MCGURN |
| Media | Newspaper - Wall Street Journal |
| News Date | Tuesday, November 29, 2011 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "When President Obama visits Scranton Wednesday, he will speak at the same high school gym where Hillary Clinton kicked off her Pennsylvania campaign in March 2008. We forget it now, but even then Scranton folks were skeptical about the guy promising hope and change.
In that primary, Mr. Obama never did connect. On St. Patrick's Day, he showed up in Scranton wearing no green until someone asked him why and he borrowed a green tie from a staffer. It didn't help that a few weeks before the vote, he explained his inability to gain traction in Pennsylvania by accusing its small-town citizens of being "bitter" and clinging "to guns or religion."
Mrs. Clinton, by contrast, played the homecoming queen. In a speech to an overflow crowd, she spoke about the Scranton Lace Company where her grandfather worked; about the Court Street Methodist Church where she had been baptized; about the slice she'd enjoyed that afternoon at Revello's Pizza-Café.
Mrs. Clinton's message resonated: She won the Pennsylvania primary handily. Most telling was her strength among the non-college-educated white working class, which went for her by as much as three to one. Indeed, though Mr. Obama would go on to win Pennsylvania that November, he would still lose its white working class to Republican John McCain." |
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