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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 08:36 PM

    @ lj

    I see nothing in that story to suggest Obama won't "lock up the black vote" in PA. The piece was about the mayor's support of Clinton and no pole data was cited.

    I think your conclusion, that he might have trouble locking up the black vote, is unfounded. unless there's some way of actually gauging the ability of this mayor to deliver black votes to one candidate or the other.

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