I don't know that you can read too much into steel tariffs. It'll hurt him there slightly, but ultimately repealing the tariffs is going to be better for the overall economy. And if the economy is good Pennsylvania and West Virginia will probably vote Bush anyway. Repealing the steel tariffs may end up helping Bush in a roundabout kind of way.
Slightly, SLIGHTLY???
In 2000 Bush won WV because he did very well in the Wheeling panhandle, and he is NOT going to be able to repeat that.
If you really are stupid enough to belive that repealing the tariffs is somehow going to help Dubya in PA, OH and WV you are blinded by your own party affiliation.
The only reason Bush repealed the Tariffs is because the E.U had threatend to put HUGE tariffs on textiles.
If that had happend he would have lost the Carolina's and his whole plan would have been in tatters.
Textiles are virtually nonexsistant as an industry in the US anway. I think you exaggerrate the influence of those tarriffs on voters.. even in OH, and PA that type of old fashioned industrial work is rare. Maybe in WV..
