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After Lopsided Loss, Obama Woos Blue-Collar Voters

Via New York Times,
128 Reads | | Post a commentPublished May 14, 2008 - 12:17 PM

WASHINGTON — How big a problem does Senator Barack Obama really have among white working-class voters? And what —if anything — can he do about it as he heads into the general election?

Those were the questions that emerged from his defeat by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the West Virginia Democratic primary on Tuesday, an electoral shellacking where more than half of the overwhelming white Democratic electorate said they would be unhappy if Mr. Obama was their presidential candidate this fall.

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