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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 08:17 PM

    @ Frankie M

    Why, indeed, is Hillary considered so blue collar.

    I've often wondered this myself. Why is this touted as her "natural base?"

    I think it's a combination of her evidently having cultivated this demographic (in upstate NY, I suppose?) as well as race.

    Having grown up black among this demographic (anecdotal evidence, I admit), I can testify that "uppity negroes" are not heartily embraced.

    The simplified answer, then, is that race is more of a factor than gender.

    I could be dead wrong, but that's my whack at the question.

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