Keeping Working-Class Voters for Obama: Ron Klain
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March 6 (Bloomberg) -- In 1980, I was working on thecampaign of Senator Birch Bayh, the Indiana Democrat who wasbeing challenged by an upstart conservative congressman fromnorthwest Indiana named Dan Quayle.
One day, I traveled with Bayh to the Chryslermanufacturing plant in New Castle, Indiana. It was supposed tobe fertile ground: Bayh had been the Senate sponsor of theprevious year’s bailout bill for the carmaker, and Quayle hadvoted against the measure in the House.