Word: omaha
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...week ago today, a 19-year-old walked into a department store in Omaha, Neb., pulled an assault rifle out from under his sweatshirt, and killed nine people. That department store is less than five minutes away from my house...
...share a hometown with only one other member of the Class of 2009, and maybe 10 students in the entire college. Most people I know from the coasts have trouble even visualizing where Omaha is—I remember using a Jasper Johns painting to explain Midwest geography to my friend from the Bronx during freshman year...
...table we had gathered around two and a half years ago. I was watching “Gossip Girl” at the time, trying to distract myself, until the local news hosts started to discuss the night’s lead story: the “massacre in Omaha.” It was one of the most bizarre feelings I’ve ever had. No one cares about Omaha—no one knows where Omaha is—and there it was, broadcast directly into my living room. The whole thing was too much...
...very fact that many voters don't yet know that much about the specifics of his politics that is sustaining his level of cross-party support. "I'm not seeing any pretty clear matches for me in the Republican crop," said Filipi, a lifelong Republican who found out about Omaha for Obama on the Internet. "The last few years I've really had to settle on who I've voted for. I haven't been inspired. I'm not sure Obama's that person either but he's the closest I've come to getting inspired in years...
...just in case Iowa Republicans and Independents aren't yet sold on Obama, Kleinsmith and his group of Omaha for Obama are working across the border in Iowa to convince them. "My big fear is: if he doesn't win Iowa that's it for him," Kleinsmith told his group. As well, he would surely argue, as it would be for the Democrats' already slim chances in a state like Nebraska. The original version of this article gave the incorrect age of Dave Filipi...