Among the many, many, many e-mails sent out by the Obama reelection operation(there are more than 740 of them in the ProPublica Message Machine database, to which this article is indebted), a group of 60 or so bear the sign-off of “Barack” himself. Their subject lines, selectively excerpted, show a candidate who, though ahead in the polls, is still straining to recapture the old spark.
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