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A thousand rally for Obama at Eisenhower Park

About 1,000 union and political activists whooped and shouted their way through a late afternoon rally Wednesday in Eisenhower Park, less than two miles from the site of the presidential debate.

"I don't think they can hear you at Hofstra. Is labor in the house?" Joseph Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, shouted to the crowd.

His comment drew a rolling roar from...

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