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...Come, 7:00 a.m. E.T. Both sides must think the Pittsburgh area is going to make a difference. Yesterday, John McCain greeted 1,500 at Pittsburgh International Airport, while Hillary Clinton stopped by a suburban Pittsburgh Obama office to encourage the troops. Bill Clinton, meanwhile, was campaigning with John Murtha up the road in Johnstown, trying to buck up the anti-war but veteran-friendly Democratic Congressman. Murtha's reelection once seemed inevitable, until he labeled his constituents "racists" and "rednecks" who would find it difficult if not impossible to vote for Obama. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family...
...factor in this campaign and this state that is unlike any before it - race. During the seemingly endless primary campaign here last spring, Rendell, a Clinton supporter, drew criticism when he said "some whites are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate." Congressman John Murtha, who represents a rural swath of Western Pennsylvania, put it even more bluntly earlier this month when he called his region "racist" in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The veteran Democrat later backed off just a bit, noting that the district used to be "really redneck...
...believe there's a 'cracker factor' - we've never elected a black nonjudicial statewide candidate - and I believe that's why McCain is here." Former Gov. Tom Ridge, a McCain supporter, dismisses talk that the election will turn predominantly on race, saying Rendell and Murtha and others "characterize the state unfairly...
...Murtha, John •Bidenesque gaffes...
...Americana. For two days, we knocked the doors of the people that were once Hillary Clinton’s base. They are the new swing vote, for a reason that all but the most jaded political hands should find troubling: many of them, quite simply, are racists.Rep. John Murtha, a sixteen-term Congressman from Pittsburgh, acknowledged this reality on Wednesday with a bluntness that a less secure incumbent could never have dared. “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area,” he said. I am afraid that in small towns...