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They remember Bill.
Far too fondly, if you ask me. Clinton was never really a friend to the workers of America. His policies set the stage for the export of American jobs, his (and Hillary's) utter bungling of Universal Health Care, Part 1, and his NAFTA advocacy knocked loose the underpinnings of a stable society for those who are not "knowledge workers" or investment-types.
It's brand nostalgia, and it hurts.
And the underemployed will do well to remember her having sat on the Wal-Mart board, they of the systematic gutting of local commercial economies and mandatory unpaid overtime.
Will Sen. Obama do better by American workers? Who can say for certain? Maybe the real question is, how could he do worse?