http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080503/ap_on_el_pr/obama_working_class_whites
In an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll in April, 53 percent of whites
who have not completed college viewed Obama unfavorably, up a dozen
percentage points from November. During that period, the numbers
viewing Clinton and Republican candidate John McCain negatively have
stayed about even.
The April poll =97 conducted before the Pennsylvania contest =97 also
showed an overwhelming preference for Clinton over Obama among working-
class whites. They favored her over him by 39 percentage points,
compared to a 10-point Obama lead among white college graduates. Obama
also did worse than Clinton among those less-educated voters when
matched up against Republican candidate John McCain.
"It's the stuff about his preacher ... and the thing he said about
Pennsylvania towns, how they turn to religion," Keith Wolfe, 41, a
supermarket food stocker from Parkville, Md., said in a follow-up
interview. "I don't think he'd be a really good leader."
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