Posted on 09/16/2008 1:23:30 PM PDT by Salena Zito
VIENNA, OHIO -- You have to wonder with just 49 days left until election day, what is Sen. John McCain doing in Ohio's Mahoning Valley again?
It's not like there is a history of Republicans winning here. George W. Bush was only able to muster a little more than 36 percent of the vote in 2004, up 1 percent from 2000, when Bush went against Al Gore.
This rust-belt, blue-collar community with a heavy Democratic voter registration advantage has seen better times -- the steel industry is gone, replaced by a lower income service industry. The medium income hovers at $23,000 a year and nearly 30 percent of the residents live below the poverty line -- not exactly a Republican fertile area.
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Which part is almost a slur?
The almost a Rino part.....
He’s the definition of Republican, he’s the Republican nominee
He has yet to convince me of that.
“McCain should just hammer every part of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Over and over. He can beat Obama in those states.
Protect CO and VA and you are in.
I just hope they don’t start getting distracted by NY, CA, NJ, WA, OR and the like.”
Couldn’t agree more!
Well the point is one should use the correct terms when discussing matters. This is likely a typo and the writer meant “median” income which is a statistical concept. It is the term created from actual data and shows the point at which half of income is above and half below. In other words it has an actual concrete meaning nor just a means of shaping air such as “small, medium and large”. Those terms are just as meaningful as “big, bigger and biggest.”
This is something you should familiarize yourself with since it helps in understanding many things.
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