The answer surprises even cynical me: Barack Obama's neighborhood. Republicans are preparing to court the blue-collar vote by casting the election as a referendum on Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, which Mr. Obama represented in the Illinois Senate and where the prestigious University of Chicago is situated.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Thomas Frank: Mister Maverick, Meet Da Machine
I always knew that the 2008 election would become another battle in the culture wars; the only mystery was the particular form the conflict would take this time around.
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