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Cosby poo poos ‘Huxtable effect’ for Obama

 
Bill Cosby says that while a writer's theory that "the Huxtable effect" helped get Sen. Barack Obama elected are flattering, he is looking beyond the influence of a TV family to that of a real one: the household in which the future president was raised. (link)

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