CANONSBURG, Pa. — It could have been a political rally in any red-blooded Republican stronghold in the country.
More than 150 people donned red, white and blue campaign buttons and stickers and sat in folding chairs crammed under an electronic Bingo scoreboard at the senior citizens’ center here on Tuesday. Some arrived hours in advance to get close to the podium.
CANONSBURG, Pa. — New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will win the majority of popular votes and the Democratic presidential nomination “if she gets a big victory in Pennsylvania,” former President Bill Clinton told a packed senior center in this borough south of Pittsburgh Tuesday.
And if Canonsburg is any indication, the New York senator is on track to do very well in the Keystone State.
For some folks on the west side of this relic of industrialism, hope
packed up and left town with the factories decades ago. For others, it
departed in the last few years, when Dairy Queen, McDonald’s, Burger
King and even Family Dollar shuttered their doors and drive-thru
windows.
If Barack Obama comes up short in his bid to upset Hillary Rodham Clinton
in today’s Democratic presidential primary in Ohio, it may be because
his message of hope and change — so resonant in upper- and
middle-income communities — sounds dissonant to some voters in
economically depressed corners of this state.
Westerville, Ohio – Here in the shadow of the sprawling, upscale Easton Town Center mall, it is easy to forget that Ohio is supposed to embody an ailing national economy.
The new Cadillac and Mercedes dealerships at one entrance of the mall give way to a mammoth complex replete with tony retailers like Henri Bendel, Restoration Hardware and the Apple store, as well as pricey restaurants with hour-long Saturday night lines like the ones at McCormick & Schmick’s, The Cheesecake Factory and P.F. Chang’s.
There’s even a Pottery Barn for kids.