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Murtha – Western PA is Racist

Bruce notes [1]John Murtha with an interesting statement: [2]

U.S. Rep. John Murtha says his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama’s victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.

The 17-term Democratic congressman tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in a story posted Wednesday on its Web site that, as he put it: “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area.”

Seems to me this is an obvious play for White Guilt, since he knows such things work for Democrats.

But you know, it says something else, too. Murtha is apparently reacting to polling data the rest of us are not seeing, that suggests Obama’s in trouble… trouble enough that someone Murtha owes a political favor to, has decided it’s worth it to get Murtha to risk his seat, to employ these tactics.