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Obama's new battleground: white working class

WASHINGTON - The morning after Barack Obama lost the white vote in the Pennsylvania primary by 26 points, his top strategist was on TV suggesting his candidate didn't necessarily need blue-collar whites to win the White House.

"The white working class has gone to the Republican nominee for many elections, going back even to the Clinton years," David Axelrod, Obama's senior media adviser told...

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