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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 03:56 PM

"But will blue-collar wrokers really buy it?"

Yes, they will!

I went to a private school, then to an Ivy League college and another same-league grad. school; ran for public office in Allentown PA, and won 24,000 out of 27,000 votes cast. Allentown is the home of Mack Truck and is next-door to what was Bethlehem Steel. Blue-collar workers are not the Blue-man Band, deafened by their own drum-beat and plasticized by their anomolous anonimity. They love a cold beer, a good game and a straight message. They listen; they hear; they think, and they vote for a candidate who promises not just change, but hope!

—ArlynLichthardt Read ArlynLichthardt's other letters

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