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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 10:11 PM

    @JERM - sorry facts don't support you.

    Black median income rose 33% in the Clinton years and black poverty feel by over 20%.

    A hell of a lot more than you can say for Barrack Obama's constituents in South Chicago, his district and area of his supposed "activism".

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