Working Class

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Jim Webb On Winning Over Working Class Whites

Jackie Hammond | Posted 05.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Issues, Vote, Racism, Obama, Appalachian, Jim Webb, White Voters, Working Class, Home News

"If this cultural group could get around the table with Black America, you would see populist American politics change forever. These two groups want the very same things from government."

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The Need to Nominate the Strongest Candidate

Christopher Fedor | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Working Class, Superdelegates, Stronger Candidate, Hillary Clinton, Rust Belt, Barack Obama, General Elcection, Politics News

I had one thing on my mind when I went to vote in the Pennsylvania Primary: Who can beat McCain more easily...The answer is Clinton!

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Working Class Elitists

Ali Eteraz | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Obama, Elections 2008, Clinton, Bill Clinton, Working Class, Ali Eteraz, Politics News

I am a low income Muslim. I'm tired of the label "working class" being used as a code word for being the lowliest kind of human. Then if you resist this smear, you're an elitist.

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Our "Working Class" Press

Peter Smith | Posted 04.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Pennsylvania Primary, Press, Pennsylvania, Working Class, Media News

A lot of inside the beltway talking heads have claimed a special understanding of working class voters lately. I would submit that if, as a journalist, you have to explain your working class bona fides, then you probably don't have them.

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The Real Elites, as Filled with Elite-i-ness as Ever

Eric Schmeltzer | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Video, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton 2008, Pennsylvania Primary, Obama Bitter Comment, Unions, 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Working Class, Obama Bitter Pennsylvanians, Obama Bitter, Politics News

After days of near universal agreement that Obama's "bitter" comment was going to absolutely crush him, it turns out that most people in small towns don't care, and if anything, they kind of agree.

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It's The Con Job, Stupid!

Chip Collis | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Bittergate, Blue Collar, Clinton, White, Obama, Pennsylvanians, Hillary Clinton, Working Class, Home News

Two of the three presidential candidates are running a major con job on you right now: It's in their attacks on Obama. He was right about economically disadvantaged and politically sidetracked Pennsylvanians.

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Obama's Dukakis Moment: Bowling Blunders Matter

David Paul Kuhn | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bowling, Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Middle Class, Michael Dukakis, Men, The Neglected Voter, Obama, White Men, Working Class, Obama Ellen, Obama Bowling, Obama Michael Dukakis, Jimmy Kimmel, Barack Obama, Politics News

Reagan, as well as FDR and JFK understood that symbols, narratives, and sets win presidencies. Should Obama not, it will lead to a Dukakis-like moment that could serve as his tattooed slip up.

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Clinton's Super Tuesday Working Class Edge

Ari Melber | Posted 02.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Democratic Primary, Working Class, Politics News

Polls have been wrong about most things this cycle. But voter turnout shows that Clinton is holding onto poor and working class voters. And the Democratic nominee needs their support to win.

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Poor Like Me

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 01.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Raila Odinga, U.S. Economy, Class Warfare, Mwai Kibaki, Kenya, Economy, Middle Class, John Edwards, Kenya and Post-Election Violence, Unions, Labor Unions, Class, Working Class, Politics News

Like America, Kenya is a country run by rich men, who use tribal differences to first divide their poor people, and them unite them behind false promises of bettering their lives if they vote for change.

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Oh Shit! I'm Poor!

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Homeowners, Poor, John Edwards, Working Class, Politics News

We're all workers, anchored beneath the caste of generationally transfixed wealth. We're not Rockefellers. We're not Astors. We're not wealthy.

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Merry Christmas. Now Go Home.

Susan Madrak | Posted 12.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Philadelphia, Racism, Neighborhoods, Recession, Working Class, Politics News

This happened two miles from my new house, and although it didn't happen in my neighborhood, it's close by and I can't tell you how very sad I am that...

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Roaches in the World's Most Expensive Dessert

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 11.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Barbara Ehrenreich, Working Class, Greed, NYC Restaurants, Gluttony, Serendipity 3, New York City Restaurants Health Department, Haute Chocolate, Wealth, NYC Health Violations Restaurants, Middle Class, Frozen Haute Chocolate, Class, Politics News

This isn't just another story about gluttony. It's a story about the inevitability of cockroaches in a world divided between rich and poor and served by a public sector in a state of bad decay.

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Willful Ignorance, Callous Indifference, or Both?

Richard Belzer | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

The overpaid, smug opinionated keepers of Wall Street's gates are, in their view, the only class of people who can explain the confusing riddle of the American economy.

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