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Overheard: Obama Channel Surfing

By Jason Dick
Posted October 16, 2015 at 4:47pm

“The Democratic debate was taking place at the same time as some ball games, so there was a little bit of clicking back and forth.”  

— President Barack Obama on Friday at a White House press conference, asked for his reaction to the Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday night.


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