[Dan from Michigan]

I just don't think a Kerry would sell here among blue collar social conservatives in the Midwest. That elitism just drips.

Can he sell out in Youngstown, Macomb, the Iron Range and surrounding area(Really from the UP to Duluth), and with the union folk in general?

I remember Dukakis's tank debacle out in Warren.....

[Theodore R.]

I just don't think a Kerry would sell here among blue collar social conservatives in the Midwest. That elitism just drips.

Dan, I saw a sign today that said "Anybody But Bush," and the people to whom you refer probably feel just that way. They may say "I am not voting for Kerry per se. I am voting against Bush (who cost me my job), and I have to vote for Kerry to vote against Bush." People who lose jobs increasingly blame their woe on the White House, particularly if the White House has Republican colors.