FOR THE RECORD - Dec. 10, 2008
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Challenge to Obama: An article in Monday’s Section A explaining lawsuits that have challenged Barack Obama’s status as a natural-born citizen -- and therefore his constitutional qualifications to serve as president -- said the 12th Amendment says that the president and vice president “shall not be an inhabitant of the same state.” That amendment says that if both candidates are from the same state, their state’s electors can vote for only one of them.
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