Last month in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Obama had trouble just keeping the ball out of the gutter.

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To the white working man and woman, he has been seen too often as an aloof elitist, who can't drink whisky, displays a suspicious familiarity with the price of an arugula salad and memorably bowled a deplorable 37 in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

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