A “Redneck” Running Mate for Obama?
Virginia Sen. Jim Webb hates the word but uses it, “not pejoratively,” to describe himself and the kind of poor white people who feel left out of what affirmative action has done for other ethnic groups in America–in short, those who are voting against Barack Obama in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia and elsewhere. As Hillary Clinton implodes, talk of Webb as a running mate grows. The problems are obvious: A ticket of two first-term Senators who write books? But the pluses are tant
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