01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 UNITY, N.H — It took David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s top campaign strategist, to spin the theme of last week’s heavily scripted Obama-Hillary Clinton Democratic Party love fest in a meadow in this village so obscure you can’t find it on MapQuest. So hot and muggy that sweat stained Axelrod’s maize shirt as he stood among the mandarins of the national press corps — Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, Dan Balz of The Washington Post, CNN’s Candy Crowley — painting the most optimistic façade possible on the effort to close the fissure among Democrats that developed after 16 months of sharp-elbowed campaigning between Clinton and Obama. As a woman carrying a large blue “Hillary” placard cheered the New York senator and booed Obama, Axelrod fetched a plastic cup filled with ice water and handed...
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