Democrats counting on ‘a lot of discontent’
By Derrck Z. Jackson | Saturday, May 3, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…In Trying to relate to white, working-class voters, Barack Obama cited the job losses in the furniture and textile plants in this area at a packed high school gymnasium on Tuesday. He drew loud applause for saying how corporate profits have gone ‘way up’ while the average family was losing income as ‘the cost of healthcare, to college, to a gallon of milk, to a gallon of gas’ is also going way up.
Obama said this in Catawba County in western North Carolina. In both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, Catawba voted for George W. Bush by a 2-to-1 margin. Bush won 56 percent of the vote statewide in both elections. Hickory Mayor Rudy Wright said there is little chance a Democrat could win Catawba outright. But given concerns about the economy that cut across party lines, Wright said there is a chance for Democrats Obama or Hillary Clinton to make some inroads….”…BS
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