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Published 1/17/2009 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker

President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural train ride replicates his hero Abraham Lincoln's. (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama looks to President Abraham Lincoln for his inspiration, so it's only fitting that the president-elect would retrace Lincoln's 1861 trip from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C., to assume the presidency. Obama will appear Saturday at a town hall meeting in Philadelphia [...] (link)

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