Well. . . The first question was:

(1) Why are you having trouble getting working class people (in PA) to vote for YOU.

In the clip he doesnt go near that question.

The second question, the one for today, is why did you say:
"And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

This time around he dropped the word "cling" (good for him.) He said they've given up on government fixing the economy so they only vote guns or religion. (That is not a sensible statement IMHO.) He doesn't go anywear near xenophobia and bigotry allegations - he just dropped that part of it.


You see, he is the next in line to be a uniter not a divider, following in the tradition of GWB. His goal is to make people vote for him so he can be our leader, incusive of rural white America. If a young Republican came and asked you for your vote so he would address your bitterness that causes you to reject trickle-down theory and focus on wrong-headed things such as illegal aliens, you would not be likely to VOTE FOR HIM. Would you, honestly? This nonpartisanship thing is a bit elusive. Tricky altogether, but he a wrong note in that speech. And he didn't unring it, I'll bet , if you ask the voters in question - i.e. the voters in question (1), above, which is whatthis is supposed to be about.