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by Walter Alarkon - 10/30/08 9:18 AM ET

The decisions by both the Ohio Secretary of State and the Department of Justice to pass on President Bush’s request that they get involved in a voter registration dispute in Ohio shows that times have changed since 2004, writes Josh Marshall. A report that two Barack Obama supporters were surrounded and called terrorists, communists and socialists by John McCain backers in Miami shows that things are starting to get ugly on the ground, Marshall writes.

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