According to the chief political correspondent for The Washington Times, gun control has emerged as the toxic issue of the 2008 presidential campaign, especially among Democratic blue-collar and labor-union households.
Barack Obama, the freshman senator from Illinois, has a long record of favoring gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C., and a raft of other gun-control bills that are anathema to gun owners, hunters and sportsmen alike, said the column by Donald Lambro.
He insists now that he supports Second Amendment gun rights to keep and bear arms that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld when it struck down the D.C. gun ban in June. But he refused to join 77 of his colleagues who signed a friend of the court brief to end the weapons ban, and he remains sympathetic to a broad range of gun-ban statutes.
Lambro wrote, “The gun-rights voting bloc is a sizable force in American politics, with 90 million gun owners in the country that the NRA has become proficient in mobilizing in presidential elections. Their largest numbers are found in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and out west, in places like Montana, Nevada and Colorado — red battleground states that Obama Democrats hope to carry this time.”
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