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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 04:56 PM

    @AKASmith

    Let me get this straight--you are worried about this country's future, yet you are going to (IIRC, so correct me if I'm wrong) vote for McKinney? If so, you are worse than racists who won't vote for Obama because you know all too well what's at stake here, yet you want to essentially vote for McCain. You have a nerve lecturing anyone on making the "mistake" of voting for Obama. Those people who did genuinely believe he is right for this country; whereas you are willing to throw your vote (and the country's future) away out of sheer spite.

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