Posted on 11/27/2011 7:52:08 AM PST by Hojczyk
Such a development would be disastrous for Obama. The president faces even longer odds of carrying the traditionally red states he won in 2008, including Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana. So Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral votes, becomes all the more crucial in an election most analysts expect to be closely contested.
Obama's ace in the hole is Vice President Biden, who was raised in a Catholic family in Scranton. Biden will be dispatched routinely during election season in hopes of shoring up the president's deficiencies with blue-collar voters, according to campaign officials.
And Team Obama is also banking on a deeply entrenched union presence and surplus of Democratic local office holders to provide the organizational muscle needed to mobilize his core constituents. In 2008, Obama relied on a coalition of younger liberals and political operatives from others state to organize his successful Pennsylvania effort.
However, organizational prowess could make little difference to conservative Pennsylvania Democrats who still largely base their vote on cultural issues -- an area where they remain particularly skeptical of the president.
In 2008, Obama outraged Pennsylvania voters when he claimed -- in a ritzy fundraiser in San Francisco -- that the Keystone State's small-town residents "cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them." Obama lost Pennsylvania's primary to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, who trounced Obama among older white voters.
So Obama on Wednesday will travel to Scranton to talk about the economy and to beat up on Congress. The president will call on lawmakers to extend a payroll tax cut, one of the few parts of his $447 billion jobs blueprint that could achieve bipartisan support.
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This.
Count me as a bitter clinger, Barry. And if Biden is your secret weapon...well, good luck with that!
Count me as a bitter clinger, Barry. And if Biden is your secret weapon...well, good luck with that!
Biden is what one would consider a dumb-ace-hole!
I laugh at democRAT voters to their face.
I ask, you really voted for these idiots?
That usually ends the conversation.
Pennsylvania might be changing it’s electoral vote method to a Maine or Nebraska model....EV’s awarded to the PV winner in each congressional district, overall state PV winner gets the final two.
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