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Obama And Working Class Whites

By The Daily Dish
May 13 2008, 6:03 AM ET

Gary Langer, the director of polling at ABC, sorts through the numbers. Money quote:

It’s fair for the Obama camp to point out that he doesn’t do significantly worse against McCain among working-class whites than Clinton does, and that he does better with their upscale counterparts. And Obama’s numbers are nothing like John Kerry’s and Al Gore’s; they lost working-class whites to George W. Bush by 24 points and 17 points, respectively.

I didn't realize that Obama has actually been doing much better than Gore or Kerry in this demographic.

 



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