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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Hillary and Clark: I can see it.

The New York Center for the Strange has conducted a poll of 355 "statistically representative" witches to determine their opinion of the election line up in November '08. The results:

Hillary Clinton and Wesley Clark vs. Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee.

The witches agreed to predict the winner of the election as soon as they could procure an eye of newt for a spell to summon Nostradamus for counsel. (OK, I made that up.)

While the witches claim no prophetic augury of the future, it should be noted that they were correct in the last election. Although, if the Center aims to "upgrade the perception of witches," I'm afraid they might have just lost the support of Obama and Romney voters everywhere!
Posted by Peter at 12:01 AM
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2 comments:

Pamela Johnson Parker said...

Would this be "eye of Newt" Gingrich?

November 01, 2007 6:11 AM
Peter said...

Pamela: Touche!

November 01, 2007 7:50 AM

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