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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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  • Saturday, September 13, 2008 11:41 AM

    Is America ready???

    I'm with Charles Barkley, when America is in the voting box and there's no one looking over their shoulder will America be honestly ready to trust a "black man" to run the country? And, as he affirmed, this issue should have been opened up and discussed ad nauseum at the DNC, put right on the table until the vote in November. It's got to be otherwise the the status quo will be the status quo.

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