Posted on 07/11/2010 7:50:25 AM PDT by C19fan
-- In this comfortable white-collar suburb southeast of Denver, the struggling economy is like a storm cloud on the horizon: menacing but still distant. A few miles away, in blue-collar Littleton, the downturn is more like a gale at the door. Yet both places share a volatile anxiety over the nation's direction that looms over the November election.
On July 4, 2008, I visited these two communities and found them starkly divided over the presidential race. White working-class voters in Littleton expressed doubts about Barack Obama's priorities, experience, and even loyalty, while Centennial's college-educated professionals were enthusiastic about his candidacy.
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“Obama has a genuine well of respect, and time to recover lost ground before 2012. But each month of economic unease drains a little more goodwill from that well.”
Not sure using the word ‘well’ as a metaphor for respect for Obama is a good idea right about now....
Centennial? Tom Tancredo’s old district? This author is living in dream land. He probably found the handful of liberals who live there.
If Centennial voted preferentially for Obama, someone better check the voting machines. These people are solidly Conservative, and definitely not wealthy liberals. They work for a living. Imagine that!
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