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World › Obama's speech seen by 38 million-plus viewers

Barack Obama's audience for his acceptance speech likely topped 40 million people, and the Democratic gathering that nominated him was a more popular television event… ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Fri, Aug 29 2008

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