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...listen to National Public Radio. I have no problem with a presidential candidate being perceived as élitist and would not vote for him if he typified the "lunch-pail wing" you described. I think Murphy should step off his pedestal a little more often; all white, blue-collar workers are not the same. William Gilchrist, CAMDEN, ARIZ...
...enthusiastic reception in Asia shouldn't surprise him. In the late 1970s, white-collar Asians in the region's booming economies sought out new sounds to grace their suddenly affordable turntables and cassette players. Older listeners, bored with rock, began to trade up to West Coast jazz fusion - a connoisseur's form that mingled jazz, pop, R&B and funk, setting store above all on sheen and virtuosity. Although derided by jazz traditionalists, the genre had an exotic sophistication to middle-class Asian ears - and Jarreau was its house vocalist, his marvel of a voice swooping out of the speakers...
...George H.W. Bush - or rather, his designated sleazeball Lee Atwater - gave us the first truly ugly August, in 1988. Atwater had conducted a series of focus groups among blue collar Democrats in Paramus, N.J., in May and found all sorts of fodder: Michael Dukakis was "against" the Pledge of Allegiance. More substantively, Dukakis ran a weekend prison-release program in Massachusetts that allowed an African-American felon named Willie Horton to go on a killing spree. But what was most distinctive was a new tone: a derisive, sarcastic negativity that predicted, and enabled, Rush Limbaugh's brilliant, destructive trade...
...response to McCain's ads, Clinton listed all the reasons the Democrats needed to get their act together. "The Supreme Court is at stake; our educational system needs the right kind of change. We've got to become energy independent; we have to create millions of new green-collar jobs. We've got so much work to do around the world," Clinton said. "None of that will happen if John McCain is in the White House...
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said Biden, with his working class roots and a 35-year Senate record, can appeal to two groups of voters with whom Obama has had difficulty closing the sale: blue-collar workers and suburban female voters, whom Obama strategists hope will remember the fights Biden waged on the Senate Judiciary Committee against conservative judicial nominees and for legislation such as the bill that became the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. "Joe's about as good a messenger as we can get to those groups," Rendell says. "And once you've got a good messenger, the issues...