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    "Presidential Election of 2016",
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    "Obama, Barack",
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  "textContent": "A new set of oral history interviews documents how Barack Obama and his advisers missed the shifting mood of the country that would ultimately replace him with a successor they considered a “con man,” “clown” and “laughingstock.”",
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