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Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.</>
"I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife's an atheist," said Mr Simpson , drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.
Mr Simpson's remarks help explain why Mr Obama is trailing Hillary Clinton, his Democratic rival, by 40 percentage points ahead of Tuesday's primary election in the heavily white and rural state
Yes, that is the words of the "white hard working lunch-box democrat (btw: I'm a soldier (enlisted) and "white" from New Jersey, so spare me the elitist crap...Ya, I know...I read books, so I must be an elitist "egg head" yadda yadda).
But come on...This is Clinton's base? Heck, This is a democrat!?! You people are supposed to be the smarter party....crap, this country must have a lot of lead in its water. If these are the people that pols must pander to, We are screwed!
