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Arianna Huffington: With time running short, Team McCain wants to cover as many fear bases as possible. So along with evoking the Cuban Missile crisis yesterday, the McCain campaign also rolled out a new round of robocalls designed to convince voters that Obama would be soft on "sex offenders, drug dealers, and murderers." Unfortunately for McCain, playing the Be Afraid game has gotten a lot more complicated. A new study published this month suggests swing voter reactions to terror warnings may, in fact, have the opposite impact on McCain than they had on Bush, whose numbers always went up after a terror alert. It would be the best news to come out of the campaign so far if the American voter is no longer willing to buy into the spec market on dread. Click here to read more.
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