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What small-town America is saying about Obama In diners and mobile homes from New Mexico to North Carolina, I listened to working-class people try to make sense of a black president named Barack.
  • First task: divide the people.

    Voting for someone you can relate to, someone who "seems" like you is the best way to waste your vote.

    Marketing science has reached the point where a pig with lipstick can be made to seem like Marilyn Monroe.

    The same marketers who flatter us into thinking that choosing a brands of toothpaste is an expression of freedom have gotten us to think that choosing a candidate is a personal expression of morality.

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