Secret Weapon: Todd Palin
Sep 07, 2008 05:16 PM EST
It's somewhat amusing to think that the Obama campaign might really believe that Hillary Clinton is going to
help Barack win Pennsylvania, for two reasons. First, since when was Hillary Clinton really the blue collar male voter's candidate of choice? Could it be that they voted less
for her than against her arugula-loving elitist primary opponent? Second, if the Obama campaign really thinks Hillary is committed to seeing their man win -- well, let's just hope that they don't take that level of naivete into negotiations with Putin.
What may be being overlooked a bit in all the Obama camps calculations is
Todd Palin's appeal to blue-collar men. I can see the voters both campaigns are after resonating more to a snow-mobiling union "regular guy" than to a presidential candidate who sees them as "bitter" -- or his running mate, whose working class roots have been somewhat softened around the edges by years of Senate bloviating.
Carol Platt Liebau
Carol Platt Liebau is an attorney, political commentator and guest radio talk show host based near New York. Learn more about her new book, "Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Hurts Young Women (and America, Too!)"
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