Recent research by Ralph Whitehead at the University of Massachusetts goes a long way toward explaining why a significant portion of the electorate was so anxious for change on election day. For the 70 percent of working Americans who do not have a college education, prosperity has been disturbingly beyond reach for quite some time.
Many of these workers were not among Senator Obama's winning coalition - especially less educated white males. Nonetheless, as president he may need to address...
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