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Barack Obama's victory last year left many Republicans bemoaning their party's ineptitude when it came to political exploitation of the Web.
Democrats, they admitted, were far ahead in the art of using the Internet to seduce voters.
So Connecticut Republicans decided it was time to boldly forge into the 21st century, only to stumble when one of their decidedly deceptive
experiments ran into trouble last week.
Twitter, Inc., shut down 33 fake Twitter accounts created by Republicans using the names of Democratic state representatives. The Republican scheme
was to send out posts under the Democrats' names mocking the liberal tax-and-spend bastards.
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What I want to know is why couldn't the Republicans just tweet under their own names? If they don't have enough to say honestly that is persuasive
to the American people, then maybe they should just shut up.
Creating phony accounts using the names of real public officials is an act of desperation.