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September 13, 2008

The worst part about this year’s campaign lying?

The level of lying by McCain-Palin may reach the “turnoff point.”

Not the “not voting” turnoff point, though, since low voter turnout traditionally has favored the GOP, McCain-Palin might not mind that.

Rather, it’s the fact-checking, truth-caring turnoff factor, as Charlie Cook explains:
“We have created a system where there is not a lot of shame in stretching the truth,” said Charlie Cook, editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

It’s Hitler, the Nazis and Nuremburg rallies — tell a big enough whopper, long enough, with enough emotion and pseudo-conviction. …

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