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".....(H)e's still mostly the candidate of coastal liberals, lefty intellectuals, Ivy League check-writers and African-Americans....."
Joan:
I really don't know what to make of this statement. The man won heartily in Iowa, in Kansas, in Montana (although people do write checks in these states as well)... he's been at his greatest disadvantage in the "lefty liberal coastal" states of California & New York.
While Obama's off-the-cuff comments seem to have given considerable offense to the coastal media elites, I can't see from the polls that they've gotten any real traction in the non-coastal, non-lefty, non-intellectual, non-Ivy-League, non-check-writing minority-free communities of Pennsylvania & Indiana, wherever those may be. Or even the lefty liberal non-coastal minority-intensive heartland city of Chicago, which I call home.
