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NEWS ABOUT: working-class vote

working-class vote stories: 8 news summaries
OPINION

To Court Blue-Collar
Vote, Light Up

Fellow Nicorette user urges Obama to take up smoking again

Jun 17, 08 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Everyone has ideas about how Barack Obama can attract the working-class white voters that eluded him in the primaries. Author Tony Horwitz goes for the throat: Start smoking again. West Virginia and Kentucky, where Hillary Clinton clobbered Obama, lead the nation in cigarette consumption among whites, and lighting up could... More »

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Barack Obama • smoking • tobacco • working class • cigarette • working-class vote • white voters

Does W. Va. Blowout Really Hurt Obama?

It's all about whether he can woo those pesky blue-collar white voters

May 14, 08 11:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's West Virginia loss by a whopping 30 points probably won’t cost him the Democratic nomination, writes John Dickerson in Slate. But the loss does put a chink in Obama’s argument that he can unite disparate groups, since, apparently, these powers have failed him among at least... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Clinton 2008 • Obama 2008 • West Virginia • blue-collar vote • working-class vote • white voters • West Virginia primary

 Obama Shifts
 Blue-Collar Strategy 

Visits church, b-ball court amid town-hall stumping

Apr 28, 08 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Moving to beef up his appeal to blue-collar voters in Indiana, Barack Obama is changing the tone of his campaign there, trading big rallies for more intimate town-hall sessions; the weekend included stops at a Methodist church and a basketball court, the New York Times reports. “I’ve got... More »

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Barack Obama • campaign trail • town hall meeting • blue-collar vote • working-class vote • campaign tactics

Analysis

 Demos to Watch in Pa. Vote 

Breaking down the groups that will decide the election

Apr 22, 08 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Some of the election season’s most intriguing demographics will be out in force in today’s Pennsylvania primary. The Wall Street Journal breaks down who they are and how they might vote in November.
  • Working-class white males mostly went red in 2006, supporting Republicans by a
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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • demographics • Pennsylvania primary • Election 2008 • the Hispanic vote • working-class vote • general election • young voters

 Obama Girl's
 Town Is Hot for Hillary

Hazleton, Pa., doesn't share YouTube star's crush

Apr 2, 08 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Turns out that Obama Girl, aka Amber Lee Ettinger, hails from Hazleton, Pa., which is right in the heart of Clinton country. To get a sense of how her candidate’s message is getting through, McClatchy visited Ettinger’s family and neighbors in this former coal town near Scranton, Hillary’... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Hazleton • Obama Girl • Hillary Clinton supporters • Barack Obama supporters • Pennsylvania primary • working-class vote

ANALYSIS

Clinton Speaks Working Class' Language

Down-to-earth style appeals, as does struggle to keep up

Mar 31, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has been boosted by her ability to connect with blue-collar voters, despite her not-so-blue-collar personal history, Jim Tankersley writes in the Chicago Tribune. Analysts say Clinton's focus on economic issues, her clear speeches and her own past struggles in the public eye all help the candidate... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Hillary Clinton supporters • working-class vote

 Clinton Pulls Ahead in Polls 

White, working-class voters dismayed by Obama pastor's remarks

Mar 20, 08 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has scored her first statistically significant national lead over Barack Obama in several weeks—49% to 42%—in a Gallup poll taken early this week, Reuters reports. And her edge in Pennsylvania has doubled since February, two new polls show. They put her lead at 51%-35% and 53%-41%,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Jeremiah Wright • Pennsylvania primary • working-class vote • white voters

OPINION

Obama Has Loose Ends to Tie Up

Pundits offer
counsel to all 3 remaining contenders

Mar 7, 08 6:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama “urgently needs to come up with a new speech,” Washington Post op-ed columnist Eugene Robinson writes: He must tap white working-class voters to win the nomination. "Obama managed to escape the danger of being pigeonholed as a 'black candidate,'" Robinson writes. “Now he... More »

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Barack Obama • Pennsylvania • bipartisanship • working-class vote

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