My prediction for the Pennsylvania primary result wasn’t that far off. But what I find really interesting is how all the doomsayers in the blogosphere and mainstream media are proclaiming that Obama can’t win white voters. While race may influence some voters, the real dynamics are age and class. For whatever reason, working-class folks view Clinton as one of their own even though her income is in the stratosphere. And Clinton is the last gasp of a boomer generation that isn’t quite ready to yield the political stage to their juniors. Those of us who support Obama want to get on with the business of living in the 21st century. Clinton supporters seem content to revisit the Nineties.
As Andrew Sullivan notes, Obama has a commanding lead in Minnesota, a state as lily-white as they come. We have plenty of blue-collar workers and oldsters. But we also elected Jesse Ventura as governor, so we might also be a state of contrarians.
