Barbour connects with the gun shooting, pickup driving, whiskey drinking, church going, Southern voter. Mabus is the Mississippi Obama: elitist. He connects with the cheese eating, Lexus cruising, wine tasting, Ivy League, liberal types.
Please, Savus from Mabus again!
Former Sen. George Allen, R-Va., and Todd Palin, husband of McCain running mate Sarah Palin, have stumped along Virginia’s North Carolina and Tennessee state lines, including Sunday’s NASCAR race in Martinsville.
Mississippi’s Republican governor, Haley Barbour, joined Allen on Monday, and Barbour campaigned Tuesday in coal country with former Virginia Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore.
“My impression is there aren’t a whole lot of undecideds out here,” Barbour said in a telephone interview.
After weeks of bad news about the economy that had hurt McCain, Barbour said he didn’t expect crowds at McCain events in Virginia to be as large or loud as they were — “stronger than an acre of garlic,” as he put it in his deep drawl.
The area where Barbour campaigned, Virginia’s 9th Congressional District, blends pro-gun, Bible Belt social conservatism with defiant, United Mine Workers labor activism.
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