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Author: ed@sfgate.com (SFGate)

Obama-mania sweeps Sweden during visit to Stockholm

By Moa Karnstrand Workplaces shut down. Shops closed. Children stayed home from school. Even the rain stopped. The usually bustling streets were as empty as those in a post-apocalyptic Stephen King novel. That was Stockholm, Sweden today. Of course, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but judging from Swedish feeds on Facebook, Twitter and other