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Ala. County Declares Obama Day

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 3, 2008 2:37 PM CST

(Newser) – A small, mostly black county in Alabama that delivered Barack Obama 70% of the vote has declared the second Monday of November “Barack Obama Day,” the AP reports. The state itself went convincingly for John McCain, but Perry County wanted to make a... Read full story »

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