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Just back from a trip to Arizona, where I met a herd of typical McCain voters wandering through the business district of Oatman, a former mining town that evokes the Old West with the aura if not quite the flair of a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. This voter was about to enter the polling booth at a local hotel. (In case you’re wondering, the sign says, “Public restrooms are across and down the street.⇒”) And here’s a closeup of the leaders of the herd:
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