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Obama! — A reporter confronts bias amid Obamarama

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, March 28, 2008

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. — “One, two, three — Obama!” Hands fly skyward in a mock sports cheer, and a few bubbly volunteers — college students or recent, but experienced, young graduates — set to work, joining others already engaged in “getting out the vote.”

It is March 18, and the remnants of St. Patrick’s Day are apparent in the green, clover-strewn “O’bama” posters plastered on the walls at the Illinois senator’s Philadelphia campaign headquarters.

The brilliant hues beaming down from above are a reminder that this is not a somber campaign. Large slogan banners, “Yes We...

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