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...candidates are tanking in the polls, while surveys show voters still trust Barack Obama more on the issue. Obama has solidified his hold on almost every blue state, taken the lead in almost every purple state and gained small but solid leads in several large red states, including Ohio and Florida. John McCain was already bound by a limited set of combinations to reach 270 electoral votes; now, without a major change in the race's dynamic, he has no clear path. Sarah Palin revitalized her image with a folksy, defiant presentation, and McCain found a way to attack Obama...
...interviews were conducted via telephone by Opinion Research Corp. Oct. 3-6, 2008. The Indiana and North Carolina polls have an error margin of 4 percentage points among likely voters. The New Hampshire, Ohio and Wisconsin surveys have an error margin of 3.5 points...
...primaries, Obama tried to assuage these concerns by bashing NAFTA and other trade deals, but he largely failed. In states where globalization has hit hard, such as Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, he lost working-class whites. And one reason is that globalization anxiety is not merely economic; it is cultural. In recent decades, the face of America has changed. At one end of the class ladder, low-wage workers have streamed in from Latin America, transforming parts of the country that hadn't seen significant immigration in a century. At the other, America's economic élite has become...
Still, even machine shops in the Pittsburgh region had to face a new economic reality. Of course, you don't have to go far to see the face of America's current economic troubles: cross the state line into Ohio, which has a far greater exposure to the American auto industry, and the pain is palpable in industrial shops in Finley and Toledo. They don't have to be told that we're heading for a slowdown; they're already in one. But if Pittsburgh is any indication, there is virtue to going through hard times. The hard part...