Earlier today in the

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Earlier today in the Philadelphia suburbs, the Bush-Cheney campaign was running robo-calls to voters with the following script.

Hello. John Kerry’s trial lawyer allies have a scheme to keep you away
from the polls tomorrow as part of their hardball strategy. Democrats
are trying to intimidate Republican election workers. They’re
hoping to win through fraud, harassment and law suits what they know
that can’t win at the ballot box. Don’t let them get away with it.
Remember that tomorrow is election day and only you can make sure
Kerry’s hardball tactics don’t work. Only you can make sure that the
American People—not trial lawyers, not foreign leaders—decide our next
president.

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