Exit polls show that poor, uneducated, working-class whites feel that candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's Yale background makes her seem “more like folks like us” than does Barack Obama, a Harvard graduate.
“I like Yalies” said Merv Thomas, a bitter small town voter who lives halfway between New Haven, Connecticut, home of Yale, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Harvard, and who thinks that means he knows both schools.
“I like Yalies because they call themselves Yalie and not something snooty like Yale man. That makes them sound like they are the kind of people you can knock back a few shots with. But what do you call someone from Harvard who is a friend? A Harvie? A Harv? You can't call them anything because they aren't friends with folks like me. I can't imagine splitting a six pack with a Harv, or voting for one, either."
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