Winning Over Working-Class Whites

In terms of the battle for "metaphorical Macomb County," this isn't a bad sign... (it's true that Eminem seems to lean somewhat to the left -- recall that animosity towards Bush momentarily brought together Eminem and his longtime rival Moby in 2004 -- but still he's a kind of cultural marker for the just-barely-north-of-8-Mile-Road crowd. As they say, you can take the boy out of the trailer, but not the trailer...)