John WolfeIn case you hadn’t noticed, a Democrat by the name of John Wolfe is making a stunning showing in the upcoming Arkansas primary against President Barack Obama.
Yes, that John Wolfe. Our John Wolfe: the Chattanooga-area attorney who previously has sought Tennessee’s 3rd District seat in Congress.
In Arkansas’ 4th congressional district, for instance, a recent poll puts support for Obama among Democratic primary voters at only 45 percent, compared with Wolfe’s 38 percent. An additional 17 percent are undecided.
Perhaps this shouldn’t be such a surprise. Obama has failed famously in his attempts to connect with blue-collar voters. Recall his remarks in 2008 about working-class people who “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.”
Even then-rival Hillary Clinton labeled the remarks “elitist and out of touch,” and her campaigners in North Carolina passed out stickers reading, “I’m not bitter.”