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10 Beer choices and what they tell us about the candidate

But one has to wonder, as Obama left a Sharky’s Café, a sports bar in Latrobe, talking about Yuengling with a local, if the goal isn’t so much to introduce Obama to voters as it is to introduce a different image of him.

“You know I got a beer down there. What do they cal it.. a Yuengling?” Obama said to a local man.

“Yuengling! Like you didn’t know,” the guy joked back.

“Trying a Pennsylvania beer, that’s what I’m talking about. Is it expensive though?” Obama asked. “Wanna make sure it’s not some designer beer or something.”

He shook a few hands and took a few more sips of beer before he walked out, the headline writing itself: “The Candidate You Can Drink a Beer With…”

from MSNBC