Mitt Romney, this morning in Sanford, Florida, where he made his final-painfully generic-pitch to the state's voters:
"Tomorrow, we begin a new tomorrow. Tomorrow, we begin a better tomorrow. This nation is going to begin to change for the better tomorrow," he told the crowd of over 3,000 people. "Your work is making a difference. The people of the world are watching. The people of America are watching. We can begin a better tomorrow tomorrow, and with the help of the people in Florida, that's exactly what's going to happen."
The Simpsons, circa 1996, in the seventh "Treehouse of Horror" episode, where two aliens-Kang and Kodos-abduct and impersonate presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Dole:
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