This past spring, I was in a meeting with a parent ( I am a special education teacher by profession.) when she looked at me and said, "Mr. Barr, you need to do something about health insurance." When she said this, her look was a mixture of anxiety, fear, and hope. This family is good people. Hard working, polite, and generous, they get by on $13,000 a year. I'm not kidding you. They are family farmers. Rural areas, whether it is Central Pennsylvania or elsewhere, are filled with similar people. Family farmers, small business owners, wildcat loggers, retirees, former factory workers now service workers, the list goes on. Only a very few of these people are rich. Most are beginning to realize that the Republican party has done nothing for them. Many would vote for the right candidate, even if that candidate were a Democrat.
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