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Barack Obama, working-class hero?

On a bus tour through Pennsylvania, Obama tries to impress blue-collar white voters. He'll need them to keep the state close in April -- or to win it in November.
By Mike Madden

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  • Sunday, March 30, 2008 09:17 PM

    @ Fester

    Thanks for that.

    So the question is, what percent of the black vote does Obama need to...to...to what?

    He's already won the nomination, barring a deus ex machina.

    Ok, but let's play this out, as far as the media is concerned.

    If Obama gets, say, less than 70% of the black vote, the media will make a big deal of it.

    Or if the mayor of Philly can somehow deliver educated, suburban whites to Clinton in unexpected numbers.

    I don't know.

    At any rate, Clinton needs what, 2/3 of the remaining popular vote to pull even with Obama? Something like that?

    What are we talking about here, lj?

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