That's not true. Very few of these miners are in the UMWA anymore and are mostly Conservative already. That's why Obama doesn't give a flip about them...
This is Kentucky during the 2008 election:
I recently drove a truck load of donated clothes and sundries (about 20,000#) to the community of Mill Creek, Ky for our church here in Lafayette, TN. It was like visiting a third world country. What Obama has done to the coal mining community is reprehensible. Of course a lot of them voted for him last time because of the unions. Maybe four years of substandard living has made them a bit more conservative.
That's not true. Very few of these miners are in the UMWA anymore and are mostly Conservative already. That's why Obama doesn't give a flip about them...
This is Kentucky during the 2008 election: