Bread-and-butter concerns drive Hoosier voters to polls
USA TODAY, May, 2008 by Martha T. Moore
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ANDERSON, Ind. -- Time was, says Superior Court judge candidate George Pancol, all you had to do to win an election in this town was to get UAW Local 663 behind you. No more.
The union hall is still here -- doubling as a polling place for Tuesday's intensely competitive primary -- but the jobs are gone. And the hard economic times that have followed were on the minds of voters here.
"We need to get some change in the world here. We need jobs in Anderson,'' said Dave Moss, 45, who drives 35 miles to Indianapolis for his manufacturing job.
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These white, working-class voters have powered Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. Here in Indiana, surveys of voters leaving polls showed those workers were behind her again Tuesday. More than 90% of blacks voted for Sen. Barack Obama, and 60% of whites voted for Clinton, according to ...
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