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JCMach1

(27,556 posts) Wed Nov 7, 2018, 11:47 AM Nov 2018

Meanwhile, from the WTF file:

Republican Denver Riggleman — a man who once wrote a book titled Mating Habits of Bigfoot and Why Women Want Him — just beat out Democratic challenger Leslie Cockburn (Olivia Wilde’s mom) for the U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District seat. The district has historically voted Republican. In what has to be the strangest race in the midterms, Riggelman beat Cockburn by seven points, according to the New York Times... https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/denver-riggleman-wins-his-congressional-race-virginia-midterms.html?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1&fbclid=IwAR1P_Szs6w8nVNLtGATlPoevQQkoycHJgzsxMTOPVzRx81CkGjauTR9g5bE