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Running Against the Metros Makes for Perilous Politics

For Release Sunday, November 2, 2008
Citiwire.net
By Robert E. Lang
A recent story in the Washington Post noted that Democrat Barack Obama is the first big city politician to run as a major party presidential candidate in many years. Yes, Senator Obama comes from Chicago–the so-called “Second City” (really the third city behind New York and Los [...]