Happy Pennsylvania primary day. Since this is the first Democratic primary in weeks, here are two - count 'em, two - quotes from Democratic voters that may spell trouble for Barack Obama in November: "I originally started out with Barack, but the more and more I learned about him, the less and less I liked him," Michael Hunt, a 55-year-old Indianapolis day trader, tells the Wall Street Journal this morning. And from today's Washington Post:
"I don't care too much for Obama," Maria Norgren, the daughter and granddaughter of steelworkers, said in the parking lot of the Giant Eagle shopping center here, near the Obama rally. "I don't even think he's American," added her husband, Edward, who lost his job when the steel mills closed and now mans the counter at the Puff Discount Tobacco and Lottery shop next to the Giant Eagle. "His father's from Nigeria, right?" asked Maria, wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers T-shirt.
Actually, Obama's father was Kenyan. But that's not the point. The point is that the Democrats need the white working class vote to win in November, as Ruy Teixeira and Alan Abramowitz argue here. With Obama as the nominee, they might not get it.