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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 10:34 PM

@weeping

You say: "I truly believe that Obama wants to be pushed leftward, but wants to begin from a position of consensus, adopting the most "progressive" he can without courting controversy."

I'm reading a biography of Nixon by Anthony Summers ("The Arrogance of Power") in which a high ranking Democrat (can't find the quote at the moment) is quoted as saying (basically) that any candidate who defines him/herself vaguely enough so as to encourage voters to complete the sentence, is doing the electorate a tremendous disservice. This is, after all, how we got the "New Nixon" in 1969 - and we all know how that turned out. This is an aspect of Obama that is making many voters very nervous.

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