Oh, and don’t pay any attention to issue fliers and phone calls you’ve gotten in the last day or two — especially if they really made you start to change your mind because, well, I Didn’t Know Candidate X Did That To Puppies. <\/p>\n
Now, one of two things is going on there. It’s pretty unlikely that Candidate X really did do that to puppies, and it only came to light a day or two before the election. So either it’s a smear campaign from Folks For Candidate Y … or it’s meant to be so infuriatingly crass and obvious of a smear that it’s a covert<\/em> smear campaign from Folks Against Candidate Y And Really For Candidate X.<\/p>\n You can’t believe any of it.<\/p>\n Use your head. 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