I’m looking forward to seeing these ads, and will hopefully photo blog them when they come out. I’m more curious as to what the website will say. I’m not going to look until the campaign begins. I have to say I’m actually impressed by CNN’s coverage of this “controversy” highlighting that there seems to be a bit of rabble rousing going on here.
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