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...connects the urban Democratic strongholds of Kansas City and St. Louis. After stops along the way, I found myself in Lincoln County, driving through a little subdivision of newly minted homes called Ashleigh Estates, looking for voters to interview. A group of young families was gathered on a concrete driveway, next to a pickup truck with a big toolbox in the bed. Lots of kids, ranging from toddlers to preteens, were playing in the slanting evening sunshine, while a couple of the dads sipped after-work beers...
...soon gathered that six of the eight adults standing in that driveway planned to vote for Obama in November. Their support ranged from enthusiastic to reluctant. And of course, there's nothing scientific about one driveway. But I heard similar things throughout my trip. Among white voters, Obama appeared to be rising on a pile of empty wallets. Many folks in Lincoln County shared that impression...
...holding the swing voters who elected Bush. McCain is offering a promise of reform to a group of voters who have little faith left in the promises of politicians. "They're all going to tell you what they want you to hear," O'Hare said. And back on the driveway, Tammy Pyle's husband Larry echoed the sentiment. "It's all special interests now," he said. Larry and Tammy were the two Republicans in the group, but even they weren't buying the McCain message. "Whoever gets in, it's not going to change," Tammy said...
...right track, according to the latest Gallup poll - the lowest number in the poll's history. "I just don't want another four years of Bush, and here's McCain voting with him 90% of the time," said Ben Humphreys as he stood with his neighbors on that driveway in Troy. His wife Dawn said, "Obama seems to care more about people like me. He's more for the people...
...what some billed as a photo-op, a public showing of bipartisan support for a piece of legislation that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the President himself have called absolutely vital to preventing economic collapse. Reporters waited and waited on the rainy White House driveway expecting to hear from the two candidates, only to be informed by Senator Richard Shelby, the top Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, that there was no deal...