1.0 link 223412 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslie-hatfield/red-white-and-greener-thi_b_223412.html Michelle Obama caught some flack during the run-up to last year's elections when she said she was proud of America "for the first time in [her] adult life." But many of us understood -- at the time, we'd spent years building an international reputation for political apathy, but the Obama groundswell was hinting at what would be a record voting turnout. And in spite of a deeply divided country and what was then a flagging economy, people were...

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