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Barack Obama: “I feel as much urgency about this upcoming election as I've felt about any election, and I am not on the ballot.”

On the recordOctober 9, 2015
I feel as much urgency about this upcoming election as I've felt about any election, and I am not on the ballot.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at a Democratic National Committee Fundraiser in Los Angeles

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