He said poor people cling to their religion and their guns.
Do a survey on 100 rich people, and 100 poor people. Ask them the top 10 things on their mind.
I'm betting the answers would prove Obama right here. The asnwers will reflect the things they spend their week on.
The rich people? Their portfolio, their insanely hot car, their myspace page, their mistress, their kid's coke problem.
The poor people? You guess.
Remember Maslow's Hierarchy? You can't get to the higher levels until you deal with the lower issues - mainly security and basic necessities.
Poor people are stuck there - when you're worried about crackheads breaking into your house again, then yes, you cling to your guns. When you live in a gated community? Not so much! When your parents died of poor health in their 50s and you don't have insurance, you cling to that bible because you know your time will up before long. When you're rich, have great insurance, you don't think about dying quite so much, as you expect to make it to 90.
So while I believe Obama is becoming a big scary question mark in this race, I think he was right on this one... people just don't have the balls to admit it.