Matchups for the 2012 presidential election -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Yes, that was the subject line on the e-mail. And what can we say, we're hopeless. We eagerly checked it out ... and got our just deserts.

Here's what the folks from the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., had sent:

Did you really open this e-mail?!
Haven’t you had enough?!

You’ll be hearing from us soon ... but, not this soon.

Touche.

-- Don Frederick

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