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Obama today: focus on North Carolina, Florida retail, the nation, wholesale in 30 minute infomercial. Six days

By Sun-Times Wire

NORFOLK, VA.–The main event for Obama Wednesday is a 30 minute televised informercial featuring Obama and “real people” and their stories.

Sun-Times Lynn Sweet (l) on the tarmac in Norfolk, Va. Wednesday morning checking blackberry; (r) Scott Helman, Boston Globe (Photo for the Sweet blog by Kathy Kiely)

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