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Now I have a reason to create a FaceBook page

This article is a bit tongue in cheek, but it include some numbers from a real polling firm, and if the numbers are real then Colbert has lots of myspace friends.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003663830
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