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Posted on November 1st, 2008 in News, News & Views, Politics

The two most absurd things you’ll see today…

By Matt Hooper

Only three days until Election Day…\
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In the spirit of the Halloween season…you wanna see something really scary? Of course you do.\
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With a hat tip to the Daily Kos and our very own Madison Underwood, here is Bill O’Reilly’s electoral map:\

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No, you’re not seeing things. That’s Johnny-Mac with an electoral vote LEAD! Bill-o apparently hasn’t seen any polling from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Virginia, New Mexico, Colorado, New Hampshire or Iowa. Obama leads in each of those states comfortably, by an overall average of 9.2 points (numbers from our favorite electoral count Web site, www.fivethirtyeight.com). Factoring in the electoral vote from those states, Obama would add 75 votes to his tally, giving him 258 total, with Democratic leaning states Pennsylvania, Ohio and Nevada not factored in.\
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Then again, we know Bill has some issues, don’t we. (NSFW audio)\
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Now, if that doesn’t get your eyes rolling, certainly this will:\

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150,000 of these flyers are being distributed in churches throughout Kentucky this weekend, as the Senate seat fight between Republican (and current Senate minority leader) Mitch McConnell and Democratic challenger Bruce Lunsford. Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan and Page One Kentucky. How about that for negative campaigning? Puts this Paseur/Shaw race into perspective, huh?

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