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  • Obama's team banks on his `regular guy' appeal

    10/29/2011 11:02:44 AM PDT · by Hunton Peck · 36 replies
    Associated Press [NOT The Onion -- really!] ^ | Saturday, October 29, 2011 10:48 AM EDT | KEN THOMAS
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama: Mr. Likable. At least that's what the president's advisers hope Americans who are frustrated by the economy and looking for someone to blame will remember when they vote next November. His team is emphasizing the president's "regular guy" appeal, putting him in small-town diners, at roadside pit stops and on Jay Leno's couch. Those settings are designed to highlight his likeability, a political strength, even as the economy, a political weakness, sputters along a year before the 2012 election. During his recent bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia, the president surprised lunchtime crowds at...