Posted on 08/30/2008 9:04:13 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
As the campaign gears up, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are courting the working-class voters whose decisions could sway the election.
Watch out, Bruce Peterson -- the presidential campaign is coming after you.
Peterson, a political independent from Coon Rapids who works at a manufacturing plant, is worried about disappearing jobs and has not decided yet if he wants Barack Obama or John McCain in the White House.
"We really don't know much about him," Petersen, 54, said of Obama as he shopped at an Anoka County discount store Saturday. "But I definitely don't like McCain because of the eight years with Bush. We'll see."
As Democrats bolt from their historic convention and Republicans get ready to start their own, they are hitting the campaign trail in pursuit of no one so much as independent-minded, working-class voters whose economic anxieties have strategists in both parties calling them a crucial voting bloc this fall.
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Bruce must not be familiar with paying taxes.
i wonder if some of these pansies could have lived 5 1/2 years of torture in a pow camp?
i’d rather have someone who’s proven his dedication than “the hollywood vision”
we could have lieberman running and it would be a referendum on gwb
Paraphrased: "I definitely don't want the person who fought his darnedest to keep Bush out of the White House, because of eight years with Bush."
I used to have to live in Coon Rapids, MN. Not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
That so many people think “the eight years of Bush” were so awful is downright frightening.
He disappointed me and made me angry a number of times, but there was *nothing” to compare with Clinton’s crimes.
Don’t worry about that quote, who knows if the guy actually said it. The key here is blue colar workers and their families now get to decide between a community organizer with an plagiast attorney and a navy pilot with a commercial fishing and steel worker family.
Hmmm? I wonder which way they will trend? I wonder how blue colar women will react to the elitist critism of Governor Palin?
Adding Sarah Palin to the ticket was actually a huge step in the right direction in that regard.
The McCain campaign needs to dig up the votes and see how often Obama and Biden voted with Bush. I think much of this McCain is 90% Bush is intellectually dishonest. A lot of votes are cast on “honoring someone” or “declaring something” and are usually unanimous. This guy doesn’t sound like the Joe Sixpack they are portraying him to be. He is not conflicted, he stated unequivocally that McCain was Bush and he didn’t want another Bush term. In other words he hasn’t a clue, not even a basic understanding of the candidates nor the Bush presidency.
Bush / Rove didn't fight the slanders hard enough.
I personally like GWB and respect him greatly. He is political poison right now though, and Americans usually want change even after eight years with a popular President.
“I used to have to live in Coon Rapids, MN”
Ever go to the carp festival???
;-)
Sorry to say but GOP is pretty pathetic in responding
to the democrats. When the dims chant the mantra of how the
working poor are hurting under Bush and only Obama can
change their life, GOP should respond with “excatly how
will Obama improve your life?”
Increasing taxes on those making over $250,000 will mean
hurting most businesses which create most new jobs.
Increasing taxes on dividends and cap gains will hurt every
worker with holding stocks or mutual funds.
Taxing cap gain on houses will hurt every home owner who
sells the house. Currently there is $500,000 exemption.
Increasing spending for all of Obama’s promises will
exacerbate the already deep budget deficits and raise
interest rates, never good historically for economy & jobs.
Withdrawing troops precipitously from Iraq will mean a
civil war followed by take over by religious fanatics.
That is far worse than losing Afghanistan since Iraq has
vast oil resources to fund weaponry for the jihadists.
Unfortunately I rarely see GOP responding to the vacuous
and untrue propaganda from the democrats with the aid of
their accomplices in the MSM.
That's one of the main reasons Biden and Palin were selected.
I agree, the man they quoted doesn’t sound like he is going to vote for Obama, if you ask me. He said, “we’ll see”, but I think he is the kind of voter Palin can sway over to the McCain ticket with her story, and her hubby being a blue collar worker.
The blue collars in New York and New Jersey may have voted for Clinton, Gore, and Kerry, but I have a feeling that they will go over to McCain this time. Watch Middlesex, Gloucester, and Burlington Counties in New Jersey, three places that went heavily for Clinton/Gore/Kerry, but whose largely blue collar base may go for McCain this time.
No, but I did have a T-Shirt that said:
I used to take friends and relatives to the park by the Mississippi dam and put a dime in those pay binoculars there. Because, if you pointed them toward the Northwest horizon, you could actually make out the edge of the world.
“Bush / Rove didn’t fight the slanders hard enough.”
But how could so many people fall for the slanders? It’s like half the country became Raelians or something.
A lot of people never recovered from their public school indoctrinations.
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