NBC's Chuck Todd says Gov. Walker supporters are white, uneducated, blue collar, and jobless

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2/28/11, NBC's "Chuck Todd: (Scott)Walker Supporters Bunch of Bitter-Clingers," Newsbusters, Mark Finkelstein

"Chuck Todd has developed an interesting device to delegitimize support for Gov. Scott Walker, depicting his backers as uneducated, frustrated, blue-collar people who are willing to "lash out at government workers."

Yup, there's no respectable basis to support Walker and his call for reforms on a collective bargaining system that has nearly wrecked Wisconsin and many other states. No, there's just the irrational reaction of the

• embittered, ignorant masses.

Todd offered his analysis on today's Morning Joe in explaining that the Obama administration is backing off a bold stand on Wisconsin, given its swing-state status....

CHUCK TODD: They [in the Obama admin] know it’s a swing state, they know that this is, that there has been ratcheted-up rhetoric against government workers. Forget whether the pension thing, but during this low-unemployment crisis, and they know that this is really an effective message strategy, particularly with non-college educated, sort of white blue-collar workers who are frustrated that they can’t find a job, or frustrated by the lack of manufacturing jobs, and are

• willing to lash out at government workers."...(video)

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