Barack Obama and Nascar

05/07/2008 17:14. So why would Obama be doing this? Well according to this article , Obama is specifically targeting white working-class voters because he seriously needs them in the fall to win. What better way to find upwards to 100,000 white working-class voters, together at one time, then a Nascar event?

Well Bill Clinton tried that as a strategy in September 1992, campaigning at the Southern 500 Stock Car race in Darlington, S.C., but he drew jeers and catcalls and insults about his lack of Vietnam War service. That was the year the great Richard Petty was retiring, and the staunch Republican and racing icon told track officials he wouldn’t drive the pace car — part of his retirement-year sendoff — if Clinton was in the parade. Clinton lost South Carolina by 8 points.

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