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Demon Sheeps on a Plane

Matt Welch | 2.4.2010 9:20 AM

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Old news for Twitter junkies, but this Carly Fiorina ad slamming her rival would-be GOP senator from California, Tom Campbell, is just phenomenal. I think we have officially crossed over into the Snakes on a Plane era of political advertising:

Equal time, sorta: ReasonTV interviewed Campbell last year:

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