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To: zeta1961 who wrote (3153)	11/8/2007 9:19:54 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

When Real Lives Get Swept Into Campaign Rhetoric npr.org

To: zeta1961 who wrote (3153)	11/8/2007 9:44:30 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

New updates from Iowa on all the candidates...Posted: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:05 AM by Mark Murray Filed Under: Democrats, 2008... firstread.msnbc.msn.com <<...OBAMA: Obama is up with a new 30-second TV ad in Iowa focused on blue-collar workers’ pensions. In the ad, a man says he worked at a plant in Iowa for 33 years, but “executives decided to take $19 million out of our pension fund. Didn’t return it. Thought I was going to be getting $1,500 a month. I only got $379.” Obama is then seen speaking in the center of a group, a similar setting the campaign has used in previous ads, and calls it an “outrage” when CEOs “leave workers high and dry.” The ad closes with the same man saying, “Barack Obama’s gonna look out for me.” Per NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan, who is on the bus tour with Obama this week: It’s not often these days that you run into a crowd that HASN’T heard Obama’s “Fired Up, Ready to Go” story. But the crowds in Muscatine, Burlington, and Fort Madison yesterday were newbies to the campaign trail tale. But Obama is returning to the area after nearly nine months, and was in prime form on the stump. The crowds were huge for these towns, 597 people signed into the Burlington and he drew more than 300 people in Muscatine, and they spontaneously erupted into applause during his speeches and gave him standing ovations at the end. It helps, of course, that he’s in a Democratic part of the state. His message of reclaiming the American dream played well with voters in these working class and union enclaves along the banks of the Mississippi River. I met one retired UAW worker that says he’s part of a big push to secure an UAW endorsement for Obama in Iowa. The Chicago Tribune's McCormick notes that at his kickoff Iowa bus tour speech yesterday, Obama used the word "change" or some version of it at least 21 times. "In one sentence, he used the word four times: ‘To stand up for these Americans, I don't want to settle for anything less than real change, fundamental change – change we need – change that we can believe in.’”...>>