Remember that whole debate a few weeks ago over whether Joe Biden hearts “clean coal”? Well, here’s some photographic evidence, from an Obama-Biden rally in Suffolk, Va., last week.

Images are courtesy of the coal shills themselves, from their “Behind the Plug” blog, where they wrote, “With just nine days left in the campaign, we still don’t know who will be running the country, but we know what will: American coal.”

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Biden with coal girl