working class

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In my piece yesterday, I took a look at whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s record on issues important to the working class has matched her efforts on the national stage to woo that important voting bloc.
Palin has described herself as an “every-day” American and a “Joe Six-Pack,” struggling with the same [...]

TWI’s Laura McGann, our temporary Anchorage bureau chief, just posted an enlightening piece about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Though the GOP vice-presidential nominee repeatedly calls herself “working class” and talks about her familiarity with its problems, her policies have been just the opposite.
Laura tracks four major issues where Palin is not exactly a friend of the [...]

Palin often calls herself working class. But over the course of her political career, when faced with policy choices on issues important to blue-collar voters, Palin rarely breaks in their favor.

With the bankruptcy of Lehman Bros. and the Bank of America takeover of Merrill Lynch roiling Wall Street, Sen. John McCain attempted to reassure voters about the economy at a rally this morning in Jacksonville, Fla.
Before an audience of about 3,000, McCain repeated his assertion that “the fundamentals of the of our economy are strong,” [...]