So to recap:
When asked about communicating the democratic message to the rural poor, Obama offers a compassionate explanation for why it historically hasn't made sense to them--and comments that someone in the rust belt who lost their job 25 years ago and has been waiting for someone--anyone--to offer them real solutions to their problems for all that time, might be understandably bitter about it--that's insulting?
Yeesh. Talk about doublespeak. If that's insulting, I can only conclude that there's nothing at all Obama could have said on this issue that would have worked. I'll agree that the "cling to religion and guns" thing was a poor choice of words--but even the most rabid Obama hater has to admit that IN CONTEXT it's not nearly as bad as the media is pretending.
As for Pennsylvanians, it looks like they're too smart for this nonsense anyway, and have decided to make up their own minds. According to the tracking polls this has had absolutely no effect on the race, after all that hand waving.
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