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Published 8/26/2008 by rsinderbrand at CNN Political Ticker

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (CNN) – Hands cupped under his chin as he sat in a family’s living room, Barack Obama smiled as they watched Michelle Obama introduced on their television screen. Obama held a short photo-op at the beginning of his wife’s address to the convention. He was in the home of a family in battleground [...] (link)

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