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• Election Predictors Who Got It Wrong

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• Campaign Buzzwords We'll Be Happy to Discard

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• 10 Best Viral Election Videos

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  Viral election videos offer campy calls for change, seamless special effects, and more than a few celebrity cameos. Laughs aside, “over the past decade they’ve also impacted politics—sometimes changing the course of elections and frequently providing a few laughs in an otherwise wonky world,” Jeffrey Ressner writes in picking Politico's top 10 of '08.
  

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