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politico.com - 8/21/2008
A Hoax in Virginia
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At 9:40 this morning, a plugged-in Democratic lawyer in Richmond, Anne Leigh Kerr, emailed a group of fellow Virginian political types under an all-caps subject line: "Obama just announced Tim Kaine as the VP running mate." Kerr said she got a text message from an unknown number that, in similar language to other Obama campaign text messages, announced that the Virginia Governor ...

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Daily Digest: The Dem Convention Inside and/or Out
techPresident — ... 62262, Is That You?: Virginia politicos were pwned yesterday by a fake text message containing the "news" that Governor Tim Kaine had gotten the Democratic vice presidential nod. We think ...

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