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Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Wednesday participated in the Service Employees International Union's "Walk a Day in My Shoes" program, spending two hours cleaning, folding laundry and preparing breakfast with a home health care worker, the Chicago Tribune reports. Participating in the program "has become a new ritual for the Democratic candidates" because the 1.9 million-member union has decided to make it a prerequisite for endorsement consideration, according to the Tribune (Dorning, Chicago Tribune, 8/9). The day-in-the-life campaign attempts to focus attention on the problems and needs of working U.S. residents, the San Francisco Chronicle reports (Marinucci, San Francisco Chronicle, 8/