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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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  • Monday, March 31, 2008 06:34 AM

    Clinton's claim to Pa. working class

    I haven't seen it mentioned in the letters anywhere but the Rodhams apparently had some roots in a working class neighborhood in Scranton, and I'm sure she'll try to play it up. She never lived there herself but supposedly older residents of the neighborhood recall her visiting her grandparents there as a child. I'm not sure how much it will help her statewide. Most people in western Pa., while they probably have heard of Scranton, likely don't know where it is. Pa. is probably the most sectionalized state in the union.

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