I’ll go out on a limb and say that the majority of voters from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Wisconsin are not effete university liberals. Will southern Illinois and north side Chicago vote for Obama? Will Pittsburgh? Will South Boston? Will Green Bay? Or will they vote for McCain, even if they disagree with his advocacy of free trade?

Party affiliation is important in America. People will often vote against their own interests merely because of their party affiliation. Will enough blue collar Democrats cross over to vote against Senator Obama to counteract the power of ex-Republicans who support him? It’s easy to talk about blue-collar revolution in a tavern, but I have a hard time taking that talk seriously unless there is real action in the streets of south Boston and Peoria. Now may be a time for a blue-collar grassroots movement to promote a coalition of Democrats and Republicans who support a national unity cabinet for a future McCain administration. Yet, it is the Obama supporters who are the ones organizing while everybody else dithers and then wonders what went wrong.