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Obama leads McCain among low-wage workers
Reuters ^ | August 4, 2008 | Reuters

Posted on 08/04/2008 11:06:16 AM PDT by wac3rd

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama holds a two-to-one lead over Republican John McCain among low-wage workers but many are uncommitted to either presidential candidate, to according to a new poll by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University.

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KEYWORDS: 2008polls; alreadyposted; election; mccain; obama
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"The poll included interviews with 1,350 randomly selected workers 18 to 64 years of age who put in at least 30 hours a week but earned $27,000 or less last year, the newspaper said."

"Ninety-two percent of African Americans chose Obama as the candidate most concerned with their problems; not a single black respondent said that about McCain, the Post said."

Harvard, Kaiser and WaPo...all Liberal entities with an agenda for Socialism. They are all biased

Nearly 100% of blacks are voting for Obama as it is their one chance to get back at "white" America as they see it. Liberals just want more power to tax, regulate and force Marxism down our throats (see Pelosi, Reid, Global Poverty Tax, reparations for slavery, World Court, Fairness Doctorine...)

Conclusion: McCain should now push for closing the border as it alludes to the fact that Latinos are going to vote for Obama and all his kneeling and groveling at LULAC and La Raza did no good.

1 posted on 08/04/2008 11:06:18 AM PDT by wac3rd
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To: wac3rd

A candidate that promises to rob Peter to pay Paul can count on the enthusiastic support of Paul.


2 posted on 08/04/2008 11:07:37 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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Bingo!
susie


4 posted on 08/04/2008 11:10:03 AM PDT by brytlea (Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
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To: wac3rd
Nearly 100% of blacks are voting for Obama as it is their one chance to get back at "white" America as they see it...

Yet Whites are considered racist if they don't vote for a Black candidate. Hmmmm.....

5 posted on 08/04/2008 11:10:15 AM PDT by bcsco (Obama: SPINciple in chief!)
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To: Abbeville Conservative

Interesting. Nearly 25% of US adults are losers.


6 posted on 08/04/2008 11:18:44 AM PDT by mimaw
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To: wac3rd

Why did Reuters publish this article? You can come up with numerous other demographic groups that would poll heavily for McCain? (Those who work for a living, etc.) The MSM sucks.


7 posted on 08/04/2008 11:19:15 AM PDT by norcal joe
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To: wac3rd
As Obama's numbers keep tanking, the Round-Heeled Media to tailor the polls more and more, so they can keep reporting that Obama is way ahead with somebody.

The day before election day, there will be a banner headline in the New York Times, Barack Obama leads 2 to 1 among people named "Obama"...

8 posted on 08/04/2008 11:21:40 AM PDT by gridlock (It's an Oil Economy, Stupid!........................................................(FREE LAZAMATAZ))
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9 posted on 08/04/2008 11:22:45 AM PDT by dubie
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To: VRWCmember

Or even if the candidate promises to beat the heck out of Peter,
take all his money, and keep it for himself,

he often will have the full support of Paul, if,
prior to the assault and robbery,
he has told Paul that Peter is the reason that Paul is poor.


10 posted on 08/04/2008 11:24:59 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: wac3rd
Conclusion: McCain should now push for closing the border as it alludes to the fact that Latinos are going to vote for Obama and all his kneeling and groveling at LULAC and La Raza did no good.

That's an interesting conclusion given the topic of the report. Low-wage and black Americans supporting Obama leads to McCain should push for closing the border.

"?"

11 posted on 08/04/2008 11:25:18 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Is this tagline governed by McCain-Feingold?)
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To: wac3rd

I cannot, in good conscience, vote for Obama, because the Presidency of the United States is NOT AN ENTRY LEVEL POSITION and Obama does not have the experience for the job.


12 posted on 08/04/2008 11:25:21 AM PDT by BuffaloJack
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Most people in that income bracket are black, so it stands to reason that their poll would favor Obama.

Lucky for us, they are more likely to stay home and watch the election on TV than go and vote in it.

13 posted on 08/04/2008 11:26:03 AM PDT by chaos_5
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The Left Wing leadership has given up on the trailer park, barrio and ghettos.

They conceded the fact that most low-income people will never achieve, and need the government to live. They provide housing, food, medicine, some money and health care to people for having children without fathers...and the benefits increase as the # of kids increases

This creates a vacuum that although you will not be well-off, you will survive and vis a vis with “public” education, you will be fully indoctrinated to think it isn't your fault and you deserve more, simply by being born.

Responsibility is second to your God-given rights to a middle-class lifestyle.

This keeps the Democrats, Obama, Jesse Jackson, etc. in power in those communities. The need to be championed for more that you are being told is being withheld from you is their source of power. Most middle class people of any race understand it takes pride and hard work (humility - trust me I know this, I was laid off a month ago yesterday) to just be able to drive, eat and pay the rent/mortgage.

The Left concedes that they know BETTER than you do by forcing people into the workforce, making tests easier, easing sentencing of criminals and increasing tax rates on the successful. The goal is to have 75% of your earnings being re-delivered to those the Liberals feel are “worthy” of you earnings, not who succeeds, but the “underrepresented” or “unfortunate”.

Note, all of the new information on AIDS and its terrible effects on minorities...and not ONE piece was dedicated to the fact that it is 100% preventable with condoms or clean needles...not ONE place put blame on the people, it was all the government's fault for not spending more money on the problem.

Irresponsibility or wanton desire is Liberal power...gay rights, abortion on demand, social services to able-bodied people...and Hollywood and the MSM reinforce this concept.

Hillary, Nancy, Harry and Barack want to think for you and let the good old UN dictate how much we should pay for others, not have our own self-determined futures. The rich should be punished for the more deserving poor.

Conclusion: McCain isn't my first choice, but you have to vote for him...there IS no other option.

14 posted on 08/04/2008 11:26:08 AM PDT by wac3rd (Carter80/Obama08)
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Obama leads Mccain in
entitlement recipients,
the lazy and shiftless,
the 1 800 lawyer crowd,
the Jerry Springer and Mauri Povich participants and fans, the anarchist, socialists and Marxists.
15 posted on 08/04/2008 11:27:27 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (IF YOU ARE NOT CONSERVATIVE BY 35 YOU HAVE NO BRAIN. W CHURCHILL)
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Translation... the poor tend to be uneducated and gullible


16 posted on 08/04/2008 11:28:11 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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Pretty worthless unless we know the numbers for this group from the past. More specifically, did Kerry have bigger or smaller numbers against Bush for low income voters?

Since that info is missing from the article, my guess is those comparisons would not be favorable for the messiah.

17 posted on 08/04/2008 11:28:27 AM PDT by comebacknewt
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To: wac3rd

This means - Obama leads McCain among those least likely to vote.


18 posted on 08/04/2008 11:29:12 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: ronnie raygun

...And Muslim communities across the nation.


19 posted on 08/04/2008 11:29:13 AM PDT by airborne (Don't hate me because I'm white!)
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To: chaos_5

Juan Williams today had an op-ed talking about race

where 31?% of white people had a favorable view of Obama
whil 83% of blacks had a favorable view of Obama.

Of course, the whites are racist, but the blacks aren’t.


20 posted on 08/04/2008 11:29:36 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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