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Chicago voter teases Obama: 'Don't touch my girlfriend'


It's unusual for someone to get hassled while voting — especially if he is president of the United States.

As President Obama cast an early ballot in Chicago on Monday, and as a young woman voted in the station next to him, a man told Obama: "Mr. President, don't touch my girlfriend."

"I really wasn't planning on it," Obama replied.

As Aia Cooper apologized for her fiancé Mike Jones, Obama gave as good as he got, telling the woman at one point: "An example of a brother just embarrassing you for no reason."