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Bad Signs

By The Daily Dish
Oct 16 2008, 1:15 AM ET

Amy Sullivan captures the reaction of an undecided voters' focus group:

In politics it is generally not considered a good sign when voters are laughing at you, not with you. And by the end of the third and last presidential debate, the undecided voters who had gathered in Denver for Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg's focus group were "audibly snickering" at John McCain's grimaces, eye-bulging, and repeated references to "Joe the Plumber."



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