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Article: Rural Illinois May Offer Clues to Obama's Electability; Courting of Rural Areas Began in '96
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- The Washington Post
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- June 15, 2008
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The rookie state senator from Chicago had driven 340 miles to
explore southern Illinois, but Barb Brown could muster only 20
Democrats in this small town on the Mississippi River to have
breakfast with him. She asked her niece and sister-in-law, who were
helping in the kitchen, to come out to pad the audience.
"We tried to convince people that they needed to come out and
meet with this senator from Chicago, who on top of everything else
was African American," Brown, a circuit court clerk, said of the
1997 gathering. "We had people looking at us strangely."
As Sen. Barack Obama emerges as the presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee, worries linger in his party over whether he
can improve ...
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