Josh Says What You Guys Have Been Saying Since Saturday

It's Appalachia:

There's been a lot of talk in this campaign about Barack Obama's problem with working class white voters or rural voters. But these claims are both inaccurate because they are incomplete. You can look at states like Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other states and see the different numbers and they are all explained by one basic fact. Obama's problem isn't with white working class voters or rural voters. It's Appalachia. That explains why Obama had a difficult time in Ohio and Pennsylvania and why he's getting crushed in West Virginia and Kentucky.

If it were just a matter of rural voters or the white working class, the pattern would show up in other regions. But by and large it does not.

I doubt any of this will stop fools and nitwits, like this one, from essentially defining "white voters" as "white people who don't like Obama." Still it's refreshing.

Comments

[Eat My Shorts]

lol. Williams is a trip. I was watching him on Fox previewing West Virginia, and then he goes off on a tangent about how people are calling people like him Uncle Tom's just 4 saying Obama has problems with White voters. I was like whoooah!!!! Why is he whining about that on TV? Dude gets way too emotional most of the time.

[zak]

The Appalachian Explanation is interesting, but isn't it just passing the buck - what is it about Appalachia that makes it uniquely resistant to Obama's appeal? The explanations I've seen for this just seem to circle back in themselves: Appalachia's predominantly poor, white, rural, etc. What gives?