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Everyone’s talking about Herman Cain’s bizarre ad, in which his campaign manager lights a cigarette and Cain flashes a moderately evil grin at the very end. Yes, it’s weird. But by any objective metric, this Cain online ad from August, when he was polling at at 5 percent, is actually much, much weirder:
For that matter, this spot, in which Cain announced his candidacy by wandering around someone else’s farm, looking lost, is also kind of weird:
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