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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:00 AM

Bitter as hell in Pennsylvania

Folks agree with Barack Obama in at least one Pennsylvania trailer park. But will angry voters help or hurt Democrats in swing states this fall?
By Mike Madden

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  • Wednesday, April 16, 2008 01:18 PM

    Great spin job

    The problem wasn't that Obama said that people are "bitter", the problem was that he said that their bitterness was what made them "cling" to religion, guns, and racism. I will grant, though, that Obama's campaign and the media have done a wonderful job of spinning this narrative to reduce it to it's least damaging component. I'm sure that Salon will continue to spin for Obama after the primary ends. But I'm not so sure that everybody else will.

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