Race Does Matter in Pennsylvania

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Battleground state of Pennsylvania

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From the Nytimes.com:

A union distributes a leaflet here titled “The Truth About Barack Obama,” which says: “Is he a Christian? Yes. Was he sworn in on a Bible? Yes. Was he born in America? Yes.”

Still, doubts about Mr. Obama persist. Mrs. Permon, the steelworker’s widow, plans to write in Mrs. Clinton’s name. Rita Ratjer, another steel widow, plans to sit it out altogether.

But in between sits the housebound Peggy Doffin. Her knees are gone and she takes groceries, mail deliveries and interviews through her first-floor window. At 79, with her fat tabby cat in her arms, she has lived through the Great Depression and fears another coming. Once she was a confirmed “Hillary woman” and not a fan of Mr. Obama. Then she listened to his convention speech and, she said, “chills ran down my back.”

“Race just don’t matter to me any more,” she said. “But a lot of Democrats out there” — she shrugged — “we’ll find out on Election Day, won’t we?”

Click here to read, Democrats in Steel Country See Color, and Beyond It.