Barack Obama’s Ohio campaign manager has neither shaved his face in a month nor has he shown up to the office without his Columbus Clippers baseball hat.
Aaron Pickrell associated Obama’s uptick in the Ohio polls in late September with his personal hygiene and wardrobe choices at that time, so he kept the look. With only hours left in the longest presidential race in modern history, Pickrell stalked around a rally here on Sunday sporting a lumberjack beard and a dog-eared cap.
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Image: A Kenyan minibus carries a photo of US presidential candidate Barack Obama in downtown Nairobi Monday. Nov. 3, 2008. On the eve of a U.S. presidential election that has electrified Africa, Kenyans say Democrat Barack Obama has inspired hope and pride in the growing but impoverished nation where his father was born.
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