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Politics

Getting Beery

By Matthew Yglesias
December 23, 2007

If you watched The Table, you'll have seen me express the view that the Clinton-Obama race has gotten locked in a "beer track" versus "wine track" dynamic in which Clinton is bound to win as the "beer track" candidate always does. But now Obama seems to be experiencing a New Hampshire surge driven by working class voters, as predicted by Noam Scheiber some time earlier.