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Obama Aide: Dems Don't Win White Working Class Anyway

Posted Apr 24, 08 9:43 AM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Barack Obama’s top strategist yesterday downplayed the demographic that sank his candidate in Pennsylvania on NPR, noting that the “white working class has gone to the Republican nominee for many elections, going back even to the Clinton years.” Added David Axelrod: "This is not new that Democratic candidates don't rely solely on those votes."

Bill Clinton leapt on the Axelrod comment, MSNBC reports, repeating a tweaked version for a crowd on a North Carolina baseball field: “Today her opponent's campaign strategist said, 'Well, we don’t really need these working-class people to win; half the time they vote for Republicans anyway.' " Standing on a flatbed truck, the former president said his wife’s campaign wouldn’t write off “people like you,” asserting, “America needs you to win.”

Sources Huffington Post, MSNBC

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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., right, speaks with his chief strategist, David Axelrod.   (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves to photographers as he talks with Senior Campaign Advisor David Axelrod.   (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Former President Bill Clinton speaks on April 23, 3008 in Hillsborough, NC.   (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
Former President Bill Clinton speaks to a crowd while on a campaign stop for his wife, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D- N.Y., in Hillsborough, N.C., Wednesday, April 23,...   (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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