NBC Push Polling For ObamaCare


	NBC Push Polling For ObamaCare

n2sooners

8-19-2009 3:43 PM

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8-20-2009 12:07 PM

jay8h

Naaaa! NBC wouldn't do that would they? "Fair and Balanced" I thought, oops, that is another news station.
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