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Woe, alas, alack. We may as well write off Ohio, folks. Kerry's doomed there.

(via Akron Beacon-Journal)

President Bush appears to have the support of one of Ohio's more controversial political figures -- former U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant, aka federal prison inmate No. 31213-060 in Ray Brook, N.Y.

The second congressman since the Civil War to be stripped of his position appears to have written in a recent letter that ``Bush is answer (sic) for America!! You're on the right track!!''

Traficant, who has turned down repeated interview requests, apparently wrote the letter in response to Texan Tony Brown, who runs a Web site that includes things like computer programs to get around the copying safeguards on DVDs and autographs of famous people from Bush Cabinet members to Bill Gates.

Brown, who says on his site that he likes the current president, posted Traficant's letter on his autograph section.

The handwriting in the letter appears to match samples of Traficant's writing.

In the letter, Traficant rails against the U.S. Department of Justice, which put him in prison until 2009 after successfully convicting him on bribery and corruption charges.

Even though he was in prison at the time, Traficant received 16 percent of the vote when he ran in 2002 as an independent for the 17th Congressional District seat, which includes portions of Portage, Summit, Trumbull and Mahoning counties.

Sorry, I decline to look up "Texan Tony Brown's" website to provide a link, lest it give Evangelist General John Asscroft an excuse to shut down Corrente and arrest all of us for promoting illegal DVD copying.

But this ought to give the LGF and Freeper folks an opportunity to show that they have document-analyzation skills not leaked to them in advance by Karl Rove, as they set the winger blogosphere on fire attempting to prove that this, too, is a forgery designed only to smear their Dear Leader.