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Friday, September 12, 2008 12:00 AM

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.
By Dan Hoyle

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  • Friday, September 12, 2008 06:06 PM

    @AKASmith

    1) I didn't know you lived in Texas. Even still, won't your vote count in the popular vote? Isn't that at least _something?_

    2) You are voting out of spite, pure and simple. You will throw your vote away on someone who can't win and can't help this country instead of voting for someone who _can_ help. Do you think Hillary herself would be happy with you just giving up, which is essentially what you are doing? You are not a racist, but you are voting out of spite (to stick it to the Dems) just as they are voting out of spite (to stick it to those liberal "elite.")

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