Obama And The Midwest

Behind all the hoopla of the campaign, people are carefully calculating which candidate will be best for their parochial interests. A principal reason Obama currently leads McCain is because the Midwest is swinging into his column (Bush carried most of those often-Republican states in 2004).

Obama is a big supporter of ethanol subsidies. I agree with McCain that these subsidies are evil and wasteful, but that appears NOT to be a winning posture this year - the peril of being a maverick!