Obama leads among working poor

I get the feeling that if McCain wins the election, this will be another one (like almost all other GOP presidential wins in my lifetime) in which affluent suburbs provided the entire margin of victory.

A new poll by the Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University says that Obama is leading McCain by a 2-to-1 margin among low-wage workers.

The Democrat's appeal cuts across racial lines - thus rendering right-wing bloggers' use of the race card a smoldering ruin. Among low-income whites, Obama holds a commanding double-digit lead - which doesn't offset his overpowering leads among low-income blacks and Hispanics.

The survey also shows that the working poor find Obama to be the major party candidate who most shares their values.

The most important point is that this also makes the wingnutosphere look even more foolish than it already does when it tries claiming Republicans are the working-class party. Right-wing blogs and commentators expect people to follow their bovine bullshit unquestioningly, but this - along with Bill O'Reilly's idiotic complaint about having to pay more taxes because he's rich - should pretty much blow that claim out of the wa.

(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080804/pl_nm/usa_politics_poll_workers_dc)