That alone is bad news for Barack Obama, at a time when blue collar and union support has fallen significantly enough from 2008 levels to cause a wave of worry.

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Hillary Clinton's support among blue-collar voters here, "We did fear the Obama-Clinton ticket, " Cowan tells CNN.

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Exit polls after previous primaries show Obama is cutting into Clinton's base by gaining support among blue-collar workers and Latino voters.

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Geography: The state Democratic Party receives most of its base support from historically blue-collar Milwaukee and the university town of Madison.

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Now, it's true that not long ago, you could drop out of high school and reasonably expect to find a blue-collar job that would pay the bills and help support your family.

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The Reagan Democrats were blue-collar voters who crossed party lines in the early 1980s to support Ronald Reagan, a Republican, because they thought he would do a better job protecting the working class.

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They might even have some helpful ideas, like streamlining regulations, investing in critical infrastructure and research facilities, expanding support for training a new generation of skilled blue collar workers and using incentives to encourage firms to improve their energy efficiency.

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The campaign has been targeting groups that have supported Clinton in the past, like the elderly, blue collar union workers and people of color, even though Obama has strong support in the latter group.

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It's no secret that the Xbox 360 can get a little hot under the collar -- after all, this is the same console that drove people to build elaborate support systems or hang their power bricks out the window -- but who knew that the heat was intense enough to cook up some disgusting scrambled eggs?

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