Check out What’s The Matter With Kansas by Thomas Frank. It’s a little outdated (it was written during a previous election cycle), but it outlines how conservatives have managed to get people to vote against their own economic self-interest.These are the stories currently on CNN’s political ticker. To me, the story is sort of a non-starter. Obama said that a lot of Pennsylvanians were feeling bitter about broken economic promises and thus were voting more for gun rights and religious expansionism or anti-immigrant sentiment than they were for economic policy because the pro-gun, extra-church, no-Mexicans people were at least trying to keep their promises once they got into office office. He could have worded this more carefully—but it definitely doesn’t deserve this sort of trumpetting.