MORE IRREGULAR AMERICANS.

During the Democratic primary, Chris Matthews asked if Barack Obama could "connect with regular people" or just "people who come from the African-American community and from the people who have college or advanced degrees."

But a recent poll taken by the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation reveals that Obama has more support among hunters and fishers than previous Democratic nominees Al Gore and John Kerry. A Christian research firm says that Obama enjoys more support than McCain among all Christian subgroups excepting Evangelicals. The Washington Post also polled working class whites and found that they support Obama over McCain too.And now it seems that American servicemen are supporting Obama by a wider margin:

According to an analysis of campaign contributions by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Democrat Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has Republican John McCain, and the fiercely anti-war Ron Paul, though he suspended his campaign for the Republican nomination months ago, has received more than four times McCain's haul.

This may have something to do with McCain's opposition to Jim Webb's comprehensive GI Bill, and McCain's subsequent attempt to take credit for it. In any case, Christians, American servicemen and working class folk who support Obama will, like black people and people with college degrees have to come to terms with the fact that they just aren't "regular" because they don't fit the stereotypes in Chris Matthews' head.

-- A. Serwer