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.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/05/obama-and-working-class-whites/216721/
