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(NECN: Alison King) - While working class voters in West Virginia overwhelmingly rejected Barack Obama, he's not giving up on blue collar workers. Obama is campaigning in Michigan, where he promised to spend an extra $200 million a year to revitalize the nation's manufacturing section.
Senator Obama toured a Chrysler plant in Detroit Wednesday morning before moving on to a rally in Warren, Michigan. There, Obama spoke to union workers after receiving an endorsement from the Local Teamsters.
Obama is trying to drive home the message to voters that he can represent the working man and bring prosperity back to the struggling manufacturing sect.
He also stepped up his criticisms of Republican presidential
candidate John McCain, saying the Arizona senator offered no
solutions when he told Michigan voters in January that many of
their lost jobs would not come back.
McCain "was right" about that, Obama said in remarks prepared
for a midday speech. "But where he's wrong is in suggesting that
there's nothing we can do to replace those jobs or create new
ones."
Strategists see Michigan as a must-win state for Obama.
Democratic presidential nominees have carried it in recent
elections, but by narrow margins, and McCain has campaigned here
several times.
*Material from the Associated Press used in this report*
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