Laura Vecsey is a former sports columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Baltimore Sun. She has lived in Seattle since 1994, which does not qualify her as a resident, according to unwritten rules of local citizenship. She lives in Magnolia, studies at the University of Washington and is the Local Content Director in Seattle for Examiner.com.

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Seattle: Middle Class, Working Class or Creative Class?

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May 10, 4:56 PM

by Laura Vecsey, Seattle People Examiner

If this presidential primary season taught us anything, it's that pollsters, candidates, campaign flaks and TV anchors have a penchant for breaking down Americans into neat little categories. Ah, if only we really could be cut down into tidy boxes. You could gift wrap us and sit us under the election winner tr

ee.

Some of us were sickened to hear Hillary Clinton (in campaign death throes) hammer home the "fact" that "hard-working Americans, white Americans" are supporting her and, the converse, were running away from Barack Obama.

Is this the graceful exit people are talking about when they say the Clintons are devising a dignified way to end Hillary's candidacy?

Today, a Oregon pollster came up with yet another new twist on the category of "elitist" supporters drawn to Obama. Here is why Obama is predicted to win in Oregon:

"Portland is not Pittsburgh or Philadelphia," said Tim Hibbitts, an Oregon pollster. "In many ways, it is similar to Seattle. It is a center of the creative classes. And I expect Portland to be a real stronghold for Obama ... "

The Creative Class. Was this something offered in our Montessori kindergarten?

Topics: Obama , Seattle , Creative Class

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