Around here there are alot of stupid little election polls like feed feed/pet the donkey named after the democratic candidate you just voted for.
They're all showing Hillary winning by a landside (In fact, the Obama donkey had to be fed by the radio station earlier because so few people were feeding him).
They keep saying how surprising this is being as everyone in the area was recently supporting Obama. They're saying people must have just been paying lipservice to Obama.
Umm, how about the fact that like most of Pennsylvania this area is compromised of small towns, many of whom have suffered from closings of mills/mines/etc and just last week Obama insulted the intelligence and the ability to understand politics of small town Pennsylvanias in areas that suffered job loss. He's never apologized for those comments.
I think thats a much better explanation for why Hillary is winning than that the area democrats were putting on a false-face for the past few months, don't you?
Seriously no small town Pennsylvanian with half a brain would vote for someone who said this, and refused to apologize for it
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You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.
And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
22 Apr 2008, 8:33 pm
