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Conversations yielded commentaries that might not mean much statistically, but seemed to reinforce the idea that Fishtown was, more than anything else, weary.

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Posted: Thu, Nov. 1, 2012, 12:00 AM

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Four years ago, Obama won over a conflicted neighborhood. But it’s been a long four years.

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