Presidential contender Barack Obama is courting voters in Rush Limbaugh's home town of Cape Girardeau, hoping Republicans will defect to his camp this November and swing Missouri's electoral votes his way.
"We think there are voters there who are desperately interested in changing Washington," Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells the New York Times. "They have an independent streak in them, and we have a chance to pick up some votes."
Repubicans are trying to gut his chances before he officially get the Democratic nomination, calling him a liberal who will raise taxes, a left-winger, a bad choice, even un-American.
According to a New York Times report, a West Virginia television reporter questioned Obama "about voters who may think he is "un-American.""
"Hopefully they'll watch your program tonight," he said. "They'll know that I'm a practicing Christian. They'll know that my grandfather fought in World War II, and I was raised to love America."

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