A strong showing in this state, with its 66 delegates, would help him claw back from disappointing showings in Florida and Nevada and play into his strategy of trying to regain momentum in conservative Southern states and working-class battlegrounds that hold contests on Super Tuesday or later.
What kind of presidential candidate shrugs off wooing whole groups — we're talking many seniors and white-working-class voters in battleground states who are, if he actually knew what he was talking about, his own natural constituencies?
Hazan reminds us of the ways Paris has always been a battleground of class conflict; he offers wide-ranging historical examples of the gutting of formerly working-class neighborhoods and emphasizes popular insurrections throughout the city's history.
For some black men, it can be a chance to redefine traditional roles; for others, it opens a widening intraracial battleground over class and gender.
The calls represent the second phase of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's "Battleground: Middle Class" campaign.
Some political experts say, however, that white working-class voters in the battleground states leaned toward Mr. Obama out of gratitude for the auto industry bailout and because of the many Obama campaign advertisements attacking Mitt Romney for Bain Capital's closing plants and outsourcing jobs.
At times, it seemed as though the car factories of the Detroit area, the British Midlands or the huge plants around Paris were the main battleground of the class war.
But if the president's campaign strategists are counting on Mr. Biden to woo working-class white voters in Midwest battleground states, they also know a certain creative destruction comes with the territory.
ORLANDO, Fla .— Millions of struggling working-class young adults, many in battleground states like Florida, Colorado and Wisconsin, are up for grabs in this election, making up what experts call one of the most potentially powerful but often overlooked voting blocs.
I remember at least one south Asian shop steward at Ford Dagenham in the 1970s, and Asian women won a famous victory at the Grunwick film processing plant in a strike lasting from 1976 to 1978, in what journalist Paul Foot described as "a central battleground between the classes and between the parties".
