I'm not sure if it's subtle racism or just plain stupidity, but I am beyond tired of hearing how Obama "can't win the white, working class blue collar voter". I don't know if he can or not. And I don't particularly care. He can win so many other demographics and his campaign can bring together such a wide array of groups that I'm not sure it particularly matters if he wins "white, working class blue collar voters".
From what I understand, the Democrats haven't really won that demographic since LBJ. It should be no more important than any other sliced-diced demographic. A vote from that demographic in Youngstown, Ohio is worth just as much as a young single mom in Cleveland or a highly educated African-American lawyer in Columbus. The focus on that thin demo is, in my humble opinion, not related to it's power as a voting bloc but something much deeper: Fear of a paradigm shift in the American power center.
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