Reagan Democrats

[jawnbc]

Well that pretty much sums up about 2/3 of my family--except the 'rents, who are Conservatives (not even Republicans). Pennsylvania rather starkly underlines my experience with working class, 2nd+ generation Catholic Americans. Watch those rich bastards, protect our jobs, but easy on the social progress. As one politician in Canada called it, the Timmmy's (Hortons) vs the Starbucks crowd.

They won't vote for Obama for the most part. Not because he's black, but because he's the most left-leaning viable Democratic presidential nominee since George McGovern.

Go on, nominate him. Then just toss the keys to Pennsylvania Avenue over to McCain....

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[bear-left.livejournal.com]

Obama may lose those voters, but I see him winning Virginia and enough of the Mountain West to more than make up the difference. Clinton is running to win the same states that Gore and Kerry won, which seems to me a dubious strategy.