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Barack Obama: “I don't want to wake up in four years to find that more Americans fell out of the middle-class.”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2008
I don't want to wake up in four years to find that more Americans fell out of the middle-class.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks in Dunedin

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