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"Obama on small-town PA: Clinging religion, guns, xenophobia"

Ben Smith at the Politico has this from a talk that Obama gave at a fundraiser this past Sunday in San Francisco (emphasis in Ben Smith's piece):

You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.

And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. . . .


This is the same guy who is trying to convince Pennsylvanians that he is pro-gun?

Thanks to Bruce Moon for the link.
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