Obama bids for Western votes as key to victory

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By LIZ SIDOTI and KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
Associated Press
August 20, 2008

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Americans have trekked West in search of riches for more than 150 years -- and Barack Obama is doing the same.

Like the country's original frontier settlers, the Democratic presidential hopeful is driven to this Republican-leaning region by a sense of opportunity -- and a quest for power.

He desperately wants to win in GOP rival John McCain's domain, and is playing hard in fast-growing Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico while watching, likely in vain, for a potential opening in Arizona -- the state his opponent represents in the Senate.

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A Honduras native who became a U.S. citizen in June, Alfaro said her family is made up of Democrats and that, as a member of the local Culinary Workers Union, she will cast her first vote for Obama. "He's focused about the workers and what he wants for our future," Alfaro said. "He never forgot where he came from."

This lady reflects the typical voter. She speaks about Obama in the abstract, and says nothing definitive about his ideals, voting record, the issues, or what he stands for...only terms like:

1. "He's focused about the workers..."
2. "...he wants for our future,"
3. "He never forgot where he came from."

What does any of that mean? Absolutely nothing!

And, the fools are going to vote for him.