coal miners

John McCain has pulled out of Michigan, effectively ceding that part of the rust belt to Obama. Well, I've been saying it for years now, quite literally: It's STILL the Economy, Stupid! That is something the Bushs and McCain have never understood. Americans do NOT want more trickle down "Voodoo" economics when they can barely afford to heat their homes, feed their children and get healthcare.

But there is more news, not widely covered, that really shows the depth of McCain's problems among working class Americans...you know those "Joe Sick-packs" Palin loves to wink at. From the border between West Virginia and Pennsylvania comes the story that more than 400 mine workers walked out on the job after the mine owners and the NRA started filming an anti-Obama ad at the mine:

More than 440 workers who are members of the United Mine Workers of America took what's called a Memorial Day instead of going to work.

Union officials say they took the day to protest after a film crew from the National Rifle Assocation showed up at the Consol mine last week to interview union workers.

They say the crew tried to get union coal miners to speak out against Barak Obama.

I'd say that backfired on the mine owner and the NRA.