Altoona is kind of Johnstown's little brother or sister. Doesn't get much respect. It wasn't on the schedule, and the Altoona media had been complaining that their town was always bypassed--no presidential candidate had EVER visited Altoona.Well, Obama did. Apparently on the spur of the moment, he and Senator Casey went bowling.
Obama's got decent form, as you can see, but he hadn't bowled since Jimmy Carter was President, and he didn't do real well. He and Casey both lost to their main competitor, a local woman named Roxanne Hart.
"My economic plan's better than my bowling," Obama said at one point. Said a man in a nearby lane, "It'd have to be."
Some kids came over to bowl a frame or two, while everybody took pictures and called their friends. Obama completed a spare, and picked up the chant: "Yes, I can!"
Either before or after the bowling alley, they stopped in at a hot dog place nearby. Obama was buying.
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