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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:00 AM

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 07:47 PM

    I think it could work

    Don't forget they said he couldn't get the white vote before Iowa, enough of the black vote because he wasn't "black enough" before South Carolina, votes in red states before he got those, Latino and working class votes before he got those in Virginia and Wisconsin and swing states Democrats have to win before Virginia, Maryland, Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota.

    Everything they say he can't do, he keeps doing. He's definitely down in PA and agree the Wright comments help. But working class states appreciate someone really getting out there and working for their votes. He runs a few more ads on how he helped steel workers as a community organizer (unemployed steel workers ain't gonna care if they're black or not) maybe he can just swing a few votes his way.

    —libertyson Read libertyson's other letters

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