Defending his candidate former senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle got this meaning from candidate Obama’s statement that bitter small town Pennsylvanians were turning to “guns and religion”.
(Daschle:) “What he's saying is that there are those who use these issues as very, very divisive issues.”
Meanwhile, Clinton- backer, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, says he can't figure out what Obama was trying to say.
(Nutter:) “I don't know where this is coming from. I don't know what would possess senator Obama to say this.”