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It's mud-throwing weekend for political campaigns

October 30, 2010 9:45 PM By RICK BRAND rick.brand@newsday.com

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Call it the "kitchen sink" weekend.

With time running out and desperation mounting, political campaigns - especially those behind or seeing their lead slipping away - throw the kitchen sink at their opponents.

Photos of foes in last-minute mailings tend to be ghoulishly distorted in time for Halloween. Phone calls, known as push polls, purport to be voter surveys but couch questions...

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