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Boing -- Barack getting his bounce? | Philadelphia Daily News | 08/28/2008
Boing -- Barack getting his bounce? | Philadelphia Daily News | 08/28/2008
Midway through the Dems' convention, Obama gets a 5-point bump in Gallup's daily tracking poll. Maybe the surge is working after all -- you wouldn't sense that if you watch a lot of cable TV.
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