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Truthiness wins again, beating Obama, Clinton on Facebook

By Nicholas Carlson, 12:19 PM on Fri Oct 26 2007, 478 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Presidential candidate and news personality Stephen Colbert is motivating the masses and breaking records. Facebook group "1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert" reached the promised million members in 8.5 days. By contrast, the Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack) group has 384,700 members. The group Stop Hillary Clinton: (One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary)? 504,148.

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