With a Gas and Oil Policy Like Obama's, Who Needs Inflation? - Forbes

That alone is bad news for Barack Obama, at a time when blue collar and union support has fallen significantly enough from 2008 levels to cause a wave of worry. As AFL-CIO political director Mike Podhorzer told the AP, “this is going to be a very difficult election for him to win” if he can’t close the gap:

union leaders are concerned about polling data that shows Obama less popular among blue-collar voters now than he was in 2008. An AFL-CIO analysis of dozens of polls shows 50 percent of white voters without a college degree have an unfavorable opinion of Obama, compared with just 42 percent in 2008.

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