Obama bruised in election day basketball game

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5-7-2008 12:14 AM

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reimers says:

Usually reluctant to let reporters see him play these pickup games—with exceptions to carefully selected media—Obama made displaying his basketball talents a part of his Indiana campaign, especially since he’s got game on the court. Obama does now bowl and in Pennsylvania he awkwardly went bowling in a pitch to middle class voters and rolled a 37 for seven frames.

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