The more people get to know Hillary, the less they like her.

We've seen it time and again, in California, Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Arkansas and now Pennsylvania - the places where they know Hillary best and where voters have time get to know her, they like her less and less.

If only the Pennsylvania campaign had gone on 3 more years and $120 million, she would have been down below 50%, mark my words.

Tim Egan blasts Hillary's "elite cred" and privileged upbringing in his NYTimes blog while playing up Obama's Bruce Springsteen endorsement (like playing "Born in the USA" automatically makes you a dock worker?).

But a quick stroll over to Wikipedia reveals Obama's grandmother was a bank VP while his father managed furniture stores, and of course Obama was in a pretty good prep school from 5th grade on. Obama became a millionaire at what, 42? - when did the Clintons reach that mark?

And then looking up Hillary's parents, well, her father certainly wasn't well-to-do before the war, served in the Navy during it, and started his own business about the time Hillary was born - they moved to a nicer neighborhood 3 years later - a pretty decent depression era success story, a little bit similar to Obama's. Yet Egan manages to trash even the idea of the Rodham's Scranton cottage that her grandfather built himself or their long-term ties to Pennsylvania, rolling it in with Wellesley and their latest tax return (uh, besides being a millionaire, didn't Obama and spouse go to Harvard Law?). All things become ridiculed when it's a candidate you don't like.

(And Obama's grandparents had a pretty laudable depression era struggle to make it as well, and his mother had a quite interesting career in anthropology and NGO 3rd world service - none of these people were born silver spoon in mouth or lived anything but laudable lives).

It's funny and sad how much this election is about class distinction, though completely arbitrary class distinction. Actually the arbitrariness goes far beyond class warfare, but this one was so "typical".