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Article: Barack Obama has his work cut out for him in West Virginia
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- May 25, 2008
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In grim times, a bitter Hillary Clinton clings to bitter voters
who in grim times supposedly cling to guns, religion and antipathy
to people who aren't like them.
Mining that antipathy, the New York senator worked hard to get
the hard-working white voters of hardscrabble Appalachia so she can
show that a black man can't yet be elected president.
Barack Obama breezed through West Virginia, the state he couldn't
charm even wearing a flag pin and promising to invest in "clean
coal."
Fast Barry shot some pool at Schultzie's Billiards in South
Charleston, including prophetically sinking an eight-ball in the
pocket, and then fled from Hillary territory to pursue white, blue-
collar workers in ...