On April 14, 2008, with Barack Obama only eight points behind her in the polls and the Pennsylvania Democratic primary only days away, Hillary Clinton downed a shot of whiskey and a beer at a campaign stop in Indiana. She was appealing to working class Americans, those ``hardworking’’ Americans she claimed could not bring themselves to vote for the effete, well-educated Barack Obama.$^1$ Clinton was capitalizing on revelations of remarks made by Obama at a closed-press fundraising event in liberal San Francisco. Obama said: You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in