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Biden Packs 'Em In

9:15 AM, Nov 2, 2009 • By JOHN MCCORMACK
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Watertown, N.Y.
At the Northside Improvement League here in town a rally for Democratic congressional candidate Bill Owens has just gotten underway with remarks by local Democratic politicians. June O'Neill, executive chair of the New York Democratic party, just finished delivering a stemwinder about "right-wing extremists" bringing their "hatemongering" to the 23rd District.

Biden is going to speak any minute, and there are maybe 250 people gathered (50 of them are with the media); Watertown has a population of 30,000. The event is open to the public--no one needed a ticket to get in--but the room is only about 65 percent full. The turnout suggests that Joe the Vice President might not connect with working class voters (the kind who populate Watertown) as much as the White House believes he does.

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