examiner.com - 10/2/2008
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RICHMOND, Va. ( Map , News ) - Democrat Barack Obama has a famous, twangy voice speaking for him in Virginia 's mountains: bluegrass music legend Ralph Stanley . The Grammy-winning pioneer of the high lonesome sound of Appalachian music is featured in a new radio ad for Obama's presidential ...
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Bluegrass legend Stanley cuts Obama radio ad
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... Stanley's home. Obama is fiercely contesting the region covered mostly by the mountainous, coal-mining, rural and largely white 9th Congressional District. Though Obama crushed rival Hillary Clinton in Virginia's February Democratic primary, Clinton won 65 percent of the vote. Obama has visited Southside and southwestern Virginia at least three times since June, and his running mate, Joe Biden, addressed a mine workers union picnic in the heart of the district last month. Read more: http://www.examiner.com/a-1618448~Bluegrass_legend_Stan... cont'd... With banjos picking in the ...
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The ratings are in for 55 cities and the Biden/Palin debate drew a much larger audience than the first Obama/McCain debate. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, a trip to the grocery store will cost you 10.5% more this year than last year. Grammy-winning Bluegrass legend, Ralph Stanley, has cut a commercial for Obama that will play in southwestern Virginia. With banjos picking in the background, Stanley opens the folksy 60-second ad with, "Howdy, friends ..." He claims Obama will cut taxes for ...
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Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Ralph Stanley is cutting an ad for Obama. Good deal. Via Alterdestiny.
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