South Dakota on the LA Times Blog |
| Published: June 3, 2008, 2:58 pm |
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LA Times Blog: For one S.D. voter, Barack Obama has problems on two religious fronts If there was one sliver of a silver lining in the ongoing embarrassments caused Barack Obama by his membership (which he gave up this past weekend) in the Trinity United Church of Christ, it was -- some of his partisans asserted -- that the controversies would help douse the rumor-mongering that he's a closet Muslim. That may be wishful thinking, if the attitudes of a voter The Times' Noam Levey encountered in South Dakota today are at all indicative. Levey was with Hillary Clinton as, in what may be her final full day on the campaign trail, the Democratic presidential contender worked hard to score one last victory in Tuesday's South Dakota primary. Her schedule took her to Tally's Restaurant, a landmark in downtown Rapid City famous for pigs in a blanket made with Buffalo sausage. It was all fairly typical -- she gave a speech, smiled and posed for photos and talked with [ Full article ] |
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