Joe Bageant has a great column today in The Guardian (UK) explaining to the British some aspects of American politics. In the column, "Meet the leftnecks", Joe says: "McCain's popularity in the red-state heartland took another jump with his selection of the moose-shooting ex-beauty queen, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, as his vice-presidential running mate. The war hero and gun advocate 'hockey mom' are obviously reaching American heartlanders: at some point the left is going to have to learn to reach the same people, especially in the swing states. And to do that they are going to have to learn to speak redneck."
Click here for Joe's Guradian column, and be sure to read the comments, including one by Joe himself in response to some of the other comments.
-- Ken Smith
