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Article: Can Obama Win White Voters?(Barack Obama)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- May 21, 2008
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Byline: Bonnie Erbe
A victory in Oregon, yes, but presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama also got a thrashing in Kentucky. Although both states are populated predominantly by white voters, together they prove there are strikingly different shades of white. Oregonians are progressive to a fare-thee-well (I know, I spent two years at Reed College in Portland, Ore., in the 1970s.) Kentucky voters are less affluent, less well educated, and considerably more conservative.
The Kentucky results and the state's impact on the Obama campaign were summed up most succinctly by this L.A. Times blog entry ...