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Published 10/19/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

Obama gives a fiery speech in North Carolina addressing 'real America' on the day he gets Colin Powell's endorsement. McCain spends his day mostly defending Palin as 'a role model and reformer.' > Barack Obama reached for the soaring rhetoric that thrust him onto the national stage four years ago in a fiery appearance here today, while John McCain spent a good part of his Sunday morning deflecting criticism of his running mate. (link)

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