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If you want to know why "small-town America" has had trouble identifying with Democratic presidential candidates, forget about race for a second. Let's face it. Obama's image as a candidate is the same as Kerry and Gore's were. For each of them, you've got a guy who you can't picture at a college football game or a barbecue. Here's a guy who thinks getting high and then trying to use a fake word in Scrabble is what it means to raise hell. This guy could not name a light beer, much less drink one. When this guy wears a flannel shirt, it's painfully obvious that some pencil-neck staffer bought it yesterday, at Brook Brothers.
This is a prescription for losing, people.
