Same Indiana family farm as the one in the previous posting. Half-court at the end of the driveway. Barack Obama challenges Aaron Villicana, 14, the eighth grader who lives there, to a game of P-I-G. It goes and it goes. Obama keeps talking trash but can't quite beat the kid. "We could be here another couple weeks, I'd better end it," he says. Then, "I lost it." And they keep at it. Family and neighbors gather round. So do dozens of news cameras and reporters. It's dusk. "He's tough, he keeps coming back - he's like Hillary," Obama says. Now everyone's paying attention. But soon he sinks one and it's over. Aaron says Obama won fair and square. But the kid also admits being a huge Obama fan. If he could vote at 14, it would be "definitely for Barack Obama."
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