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Election Coverage Brings 4-Year-Old to Tears

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“Oh sure, little Abby sure is cute, with her red hair and red nose, when she cries that she’s “tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney.” The four-year-old has been joined by a surprisingly large number of reporters who decided to make their living writing about politics but can’t stop …

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CNN Hurricane Sandy Info Came From Troll

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“During the storm last night, user @comfortablysmug was the source of a load of frightening but false information about conditions in New York City that spread wildly on Twitter and onto news broadcasts before Con Ed, the MTA, and Wall Street sources had to take time out of the crisis …

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Election 2012 – The Pundits are Stumped

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“Gov. Mitt Romney’s campaign says it still has momentum. President Barack Obama’s campaign says that’s all spin. Meanwhile, there isn’t a single well-informed pundit between them who can tell you who’s right. “The problem is: there are so many variables. And now, with the storm, turnout may become an issue …

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Romney’s Opportunistic Storm Photo Op

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“The last-minute decision by Romney high command Monday to suspend politics while Sandy raged sent aides in Ohio scrambling to convert a scheduled victory rally into an apolitical “storm relief event” — a process that tested the campaign’s agility and left a few threads of partisanship inadvertently hanging. On Monday …

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