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harbor any inaccurate views about Obama's religion. It's been stated a zillion times he's not a Muslim. Only hard-core right-wingers cling to that falsehood and they too know it's not accurate.
What I think is wrong for Obama in small-towns and with working class people is his inability for the entire summer, after Clinton concluded her campaign, to identify his core set of convictions about why these voters need to vote for him, and how their lives will be different if they elect him.
We know that these voters like candidates with strong convictions, whether they agree with all of them or not. Obama, for all the laudatory comments about his speech-making capabilities, seems to not be able to articulate a set of convictions that he will enact in the first 100 days if elected. When you don't know what a guy/gal stands for, how you get excited about what he/she will do for your life?
