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By The Daily Dish

May 13 2008, 1:46 AM ET

A reader forwards:

Grandma warned me yesterday not to tell anyone I was voting for Obama, but I am heading out the door in about an hour to do just that. Mom.

I'm struck by this clip. When a Clinton supporter is directly confronted with the fact that Obama is not a Muslim, she simply refuses to believe it. When people simply refuse to deal with fact, something else is going on.



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