[lbo-talk] US elections

shag shag at cleandraws.com
Wed May 7 15:03:02 PDT 2008


At 01:03 PM 5/7/2008, Doug Henwood wrote:


>Yup there too. In the last few weeks - after she fired Mark Penn -
>she's emphasized her utterly phantasmic identity as a tribune of the
>working class, "fighting for you." She's been hoping to use her
>uphill struggle as a point of identification for working class voters
>struggling to pay the bills. It's probably helped some, but it was
>too late.

what explained their support early on, though. i didn't pay attention, but i recall reading that it was because she spoke to bread 'n' butter issues such as declining pay, shuttered factories, etc.

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