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Published 11/25/2008 by John Dickerson at (Obsolete Feed)
The key to Barack Obama's success may lie with his least enthusiastic supporters. On Saturday, while the rest of America raked leaves and watched college football, 12 of them gathered in a windowless conference room to talk about the election. [ more ... ]
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