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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.
By Dan Hoyle

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  • Thursday, September 11, 2008 07:27 PM

    Policy, policy, policy.

    So you vote for a person you have some kind of fantasy about them understanding you, when you know damn well their policies are directly against your interests- dimwit. You have looked at their policies, right?

    I still remember seeing all these working class Joes saying they were going to vote for silver-spoon Bush because he understood them ... jeeeeeez. And that was in 2004, when they absolutely, definitely knew better.

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