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Among the dozens of oh-so-serious tomes on candidates and voters and issues we’ve seen this election season are two novelty books (from Andrews McMeel Publishing) that offer “weird and wacky tales” from both political parties. Among them: Sarah Palin’s response to a third-grader who asked what vice presidents do (“They’re in charge of the U.S. Senate”) during a 2008 interview on Colorado’s KUSA-TV, and Boulder’s allocation of $16,000 in 2006 to create a hate hotline (“basically, just a whine-line”).
The compilations offer comic reminders that both parties are sometimes guilty of dumb stuff.
— Barbara Ellis
