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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.

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  • Sunday, September 14, 2008 01:32 PM

    Sarahminah

    ...ignore the repuglicker troll. It wants you to ignore the massive on-the-ground operation that Obama is putting into place (myself included)-- registering new voters, poll watching activism (including legal teams to contest voter purges -- so the RNC can't steal it quite so easily this time), get-out-the-vote efforts in every state... we're working very hard for the day that the fruits of community organizing come back and bite the repugs in the ass.

    As 8 years of GOP (Greedy Oil Profiteer) rule and 28 years of GOP dominance in DC continue to wreak havoc on what's left of the American middle class, the rubes stay glued to Faux nooz, and continue to vote for their own impoverishment. I say, they deserve what they get... problem is, they're dragging the rest of us down with them. We're fighting to keep them from doing that again.

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