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Michael Crowley/
August 27, 2009

Obama Under 50

He hits a troubling milestone for the first time, according to Pollster.com's poll of polls. Let's see if there's a "Kennedy effect" produced by sentimental wall-to-wall news coverage heavy on the best ideals of liberalism and the Democratic Party (not to mention a change of topic from the health care morass).

H/T TWS

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