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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Oliver Burkeman

Obama making inroads among previously unpromising "extremely racist" demographic

Ben Smith, via Andrew Sullivan:

An Obama supporter, who canvassed for the candidate in the working-class, white Philadelphia neighborhood of Fishtown recently, sends over an account that, in various forms, I've heard a lot in recent weeks. "What's crazy is this," he writes. "I was blown away by the outright racism, but these folks are f***ing undecided. They would call him a n-----r and mention how they don't know what to do because of the economy."

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