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For its new factories in Oregon (wafer fabrication) and Arizona (making beyond-small 14-nanometer microchips), Intel needs loads of lunch-bucket workers with Ph.D.s—if they can find them in the U.S.

The Motorbike Economy Daniel Henninger 2011

I couldn't help but wonder what the lunch-bucket Blazers and Nate McMillan were thinking as they watched their polar opposites strut around like ridiculous chickens.

Ding dong, LeBron is gone (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

Just as the lunch-bucket voters feared -- Obama has become the very symbol of a politician who says one thing on the stump, but then does the opposite once he gets back to Washington.

Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats 2010

Liason then when on to quote one voter in particular who summed up this "lunch-bucket" perspective on Obama in 2008:

Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats 2010

Is the perception of the lunch-bucket voters fair?

Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats 2010

Try as he might, Obama never managed to become a symbol that lunch-bucket Democrats took as their own.

Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats 2010

Obama needs to promote one piece of legislation that re-establishes the party as the voice of lunch-bucket voters -- as the party that truly advocates for Main Street instead of Wall Street.

Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats 2010

While the impact of that vote was diminished in the fray of the national election against McCain, the x-factor of the lunch-bucket Democrats remained in play.

Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats 2010

Reporting in March of 2008, NPR's Mara Liason observed, "Sen. Barack Obama, who has built his string of victories with the support of upscale affluent voters, is now trying hard to win support from the so-called" lunch-bucket "Democrats."

Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats 2010

How is it that Obama managed to allow his big weakness with lunch-bucket voters to become the Achilles heel of the entire party?

Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats 2010