Poll Indicates Obama Has a Real Problem with Working Class Voters
Last week, Graniteprof, a terrific website,
had an interesting item on the latest Globe poll in New Hampshire. What he highlighted from the poll is that among voters with a high school education or less, Obama trails Clinton in New Hampshire by an astounding 6-1 margin, and actually runs fourth in New Hampshire behind Bill Richardson and John Edwards among these voters.
The good news for Obama is that the college-educated tend to cast a disproportionate number of ballots in Iowa and New Hampshire. The bad news is that, as the process goes on through the primaries and into November, this becomes less and less true.
The other bad news is that the "wine and brie" candidate in the Democratic primaries -- whether the name is Dean, Bradley, Hart, Udall, or Kerrey -- seldom wins the nomination.