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Four Months Ago: "We can't vote for... one of them."

This Morning: "I'm voting for Obama. Roger too. He can't stand that woman."

I live in east Tennessee, deep Appalachia, and the above quotes are from  a rural white woman who does odd jobs on the weekends at the place where my mother-in-law works. Four months ago, in the break room, she saw Obama on the TV and declared that neither she nor her husband could vote for a black man. This morning, she was asking my mother-in-law when early voting started because she and her husband wanted to cast their votes for Barack Obama as soon as possible.

Again, this is rural Appalachia. Something is happening.

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