Appalachia is Hillary Country
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- klenga
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From Josh Marshall at talkingpointsmemo.com:
"There's been a lot of talk in this campaign about Barack Obama's problem with working class white voters or rural voters. But these claims are both inaccurate because they are incomplete. You can look at states like Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other states and see the different numbers and they are all explained by one basic fact. Obama's problem isn't with white working class voters or rural voters. It's Appalachia. That explains why Obama had a difficult time in Ohio and Pennsylvania and why he's getting crushed in West Virginia and Kentucky."
read the full article for more analysis from the always-worth-reading Josh Marshall...
"There's been a lot of talk in this campaign about Barack Obama's problem with working class white voters or rural voters. But these claims are both inaccurate because they are incomplete. You can look at states like Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other states and see the different numbers and they are all explained by one basic fact. Obama's problem isn't with white working class voters or rural voters. It's Appalachia. That explains why Obama had a difficult time in Ohio and Pennsylvania and why he's getting crushed in West Virginia and Kentucky."
read the full article for more analysis from the always-worth-reading Josh Marshall...
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Actually, Appalachia belongs to Big Coal Republicans. The coal companies are holding these people hostage, pitting neighbor against neighbor. Obama's first mistake was trying to appease these xenophobes by promising to investigate 'clean coal' as an energy option. The more progressive among them are against the mountain blasting connected to stripmining and slurry dumping that has been an environmental disaster and health hazzard for the last two decades.
Between now and November, hopefully Obama will include this area in 50-state tour. There are a good number of democratic votes he can win if he makes the effort to appeal to their pleas to regulate mining and reinstate environmental compliance nullified by the Bush administration. He needs some boots on the ground there. Otherwise, that area is going to fall to McCain for no better reason than McCain is white and offers the miners job security.-
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- 96thdayofrage
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