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Chicago's Martin Nesbitt stumping with Obama: Basketball on election day?

By  Lynn Sweet
   

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BEACHWOOD, Ohio–President Barack Obama Chicago pal and Obama campaign treasurer Martin Nesbitt is on the stump with the president as Air Force One hits the battleground states.

Nesbitt was with Obama on the campaign plane for the closing chapter in 2008. Nesbitt is also a basketball playing buddy. Obama played basketball on every primary election day (but one) and went to a Chicago gym on general election day in 2008. Will there be a game Tuesday?

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