In a small town in Pennsylvania, where the liquor store is called "Beer World", the mini-golf course has a Statue of Liberty hole and a sign boasts that this is the "21st best town in the us", Barack Obama is making a speech. The latest unemployment statistics have just been released, and they are grim. It is the day after the vice-presidential debate, during which Sarah Palin accused the Democrats of wanting to impose job-killing tax hikes on business.rn"Just since January, we've lost more than 750,000 jobs across America, 7,000 in Pennsylvania alone," says Mr Obama, "So when Senator [John] McCain and his running-mate talk about job-killing, that's something they know a thing or two about. Because the policies they're supporting are killing jobs every single day."
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