Riddle me this, Batman...

I was driving to get a pizza today, and as I was rolling past the mall in Port Arthur, I saw an Obama-Biden '08 yard sign. Considering the fact that Barack Obama and Joe Biden want to tax the shit out of the oil companies that are more or less the backbone of the local economy, thereby stifling future investment, growth and development in this area and everywhere else by said companies — and considering the fact that the majority of Jefferson County voters in the 2004 elections voted for John Kerry, who wanted to do exactly the same thing — I'd love to ask elitist jackasses like Thomas Frank just who the hell's voting against their own economic self-interests here.