About Hard Working Whites in US : Their Voting Preferences

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sat May 10, 2008 10:37 PM EDT

Article Source: The Huffington Post

politics, obama, clinton, us-elections, blue-clooar-whites

If there were ever words that Hillary Clinton should take back it's her retort that hard working whites backed her in the primaries. The implication was that whites are the only ones who work hard. She obviously didn't mean that. Her awkwardly put point was simply that Obama has not cracked the resistance to him of blue collar, rural, and non-college educated, lower income whites.

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kdpgrahi

The subtle analysis may not help the candidates I think

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#1 - Sat May 10, 2008 10:38 PM EDT

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backroads

There's an insistence in the Obama camp that if you don't vote for him -- and they say we must -- then you're racist. It's a campaign of intimidation.

I think he has wrong ideas on trade (he's protectionist), Iraq and negotiations.

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#2 - Sat May 10, 2008 11:59 PM EDT

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Charles of Bassett Breath

I agree with many of Barry's observations, and very few of his solutions. His approach of characterizing the successful policies of Reagan and his political heirs as "old" and suggesting that the old failed and poisonous policies of McCarthy, McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Udall etc as "change we can believe in" would be as humorous as the best of SNL if it weren't for the immeasurable naivete of his supporters and the corrupt enabling of the media.

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#3 - Mon May 12, 2008 5:52 AM EDT

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