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Obama momentum slowed by 'Archie Bunker' voters
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080306/pl_bloomberg/ar7wd5nircc;_ylt=Ajz961SVAIATWv6Ulyoi_hKs0NUE ^

Posted on 03/06/2008 10:48:36 AM PST by chessplayer

March 6 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama is having trouble with Archie Bunker.

The white, blue-collar voters personified by the 1970s fictional television character cost Obama this week. His Democratic presidential rival, Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, beat him 54 percent to 44 percent in industrial Ohio, and 58 percent to 40 percent in predominantly white Rhode Island.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: archiebunker; bluecollarvote; malevote; nobama; obama; oh2008
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1 posted on 03/06/2008 10:48:37 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

ping.


2 posted on 03/06/2008 10:49:45 AM PST by jdm (Contrary to popular belief, the search function works just fine.)
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To: chessplayer

No, It was Edith Bunkers what done him in!...........And a whole lotta Meatheads and Glorias...........


3 posted on 03/06/2008 10:50:00 AM PST by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: chessplayer

Bless their hearts.

They recognize a clear and present danger to the country when they see its articulate ass.


4 posted on 03/06/2008 10:50:11 AM PST by EyeGuy
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To: chessplayer

Rush Limbaugh has said that the white male will determine the 2008 election.


5 posted on 03/06/2008 10:50:44 AM PST by MuttTheHoople
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To: chessplayer

What’s Spanish for Archie Bunker?


6 posted on 03/06/2008 10:51:18 AM PST by The_Republican (You know why Chelsea Clinton is so Ugly? Because Janet Reno is her Father! LOL! - Mac is Back!)
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To: chessplayer

Yeah, but...Then There’s Maude!


7 posted on 03/06/2008 10:51:39 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: chessplayer
Racist Democrats? No Way!

/sarcasm

8 posted on 03/06/2008 10:53:13 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: chessplayer

Whoever is throwing this crap out there is the true racist.


9 posted on 03/06/2008 10:53:16 AM PST by Tex Pete (Obama for Change: from our pockets, our piggy banks, and our couch cushions)
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To: chessplayer

Yeah, Obama going to get “Bunkered” in 08. Hahaha!


10 posted on 03/06/2008 10:53:19 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: chessplayer

How bigotted and racist this article is... I wonder how they can get away with printing it???


11 posted on 03/06/2008 10:53:22 AM PST by tomnbeverly (All Ideologues are idiots.)
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To: chessplayer

Wow, I saw this coming....anyone who does not vote for Obama is a racist Archie Bunker type.


12 posted on 03/06/2008 10:54:06 AM PST by EnquiringMind
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To: chessplayer

Maybe these guys don’t worship....err....watch, “The Oprah”?


13 posted on 03/06/2008 10:54:16 AM PST by roses of sharon (Who will be McCain's maverick?)
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To: chessplayer

Where’s the outrage? God forbid if anyone made a comparison of the Jeffrson’s ‘Movin on up’.
/sarc/


14 posted on 03/06/2008 10:54:19 AM PST by SueRae
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To: chessplayer
Meathead is for Hillary.
15 posted on 03/06/2008 10:54:40 AM PST by kempo (H)
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To: chessplayer
Once a Meathead! ...always a Meathead!


16 posted on 03/06/2008 10:54:56 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: chessplayer
It looks like Yahoo is trying to get Obama the white guilt vote.
17 posted on 03/06/2008 10:55:19 AM PST by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: chessplayer

“Clinton Momentum Slowed by ‘Thug’ Voters”


18 posted on 03/06/2008 10:55:53 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: tobyhill

They do that and they’ll run head-on into the Dinkins effect.


19 posted on 03/06/2008 10:56:48 AM PST by thulldud (Insanity: Electing John McCain again and expecting a different result.)
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To: chessplayer
Barack Obama is having trouble with Archie Bunker.

A person so simple and in touch with reality that he recognizes tribal warfare when he sees it.

20 posted on 03/06/2008 10:57:15 AM PST by Stentor
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