Our Endorsements: Key & Peele Get Defensive

* Key & Peele reprise their roles as President Obama and his anger translator.

* Rex Huppke reminds us to use humor when discussing politics at work.

* From The Onion, meet an anonymous governor with a guilty secret.

* A Chicago sports fan suggests how to fix our political policies, from McSweeney's.

* Joe Biden knows how to have fun with a bunch of reporters and their children: water guns.

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Exclusive Text Jokes from Indecision

The election's getting closer every day, so it's time to pick a side of the aisle. Sign up now and each day we'll send you an exclusive Liberal Agenda or Conservative Marching Orders text message through Election Day, November 6, 2012.

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LIBERAL AGENDA/CONSERVATIVE MARCHING ORDERS: Exclusive Jokes to Get You Through the Election!

With the election a year away, it's time to pick a side of the aisle. Sign up now and we'll send you an exclusive Liberal Agenda or Conservative Marching Orders text message every day from November 6, 2011 until Election Day, November 6, 2012.

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Countdown to Electiony: 0 Days

Zero: The number of times in our nation's 232 year history, as of the time of writing, that the country — despite being originally populated by dark-skinned Eurasian migrants, having a multi-continental populace going back longer than the country itself, currently boasting a citizenry with genetic ties to every conceivable place in the world, and a roughly equal (though leaning female) gender breakdown — has seen fit to elect a non-white, non-male person as either its president or vice president.

Today is the last day in our nation's history that we'll ever have to admit that again.

Tags: Barack Obama, Election Countdown, Election Day, Sarah Palin

Countdown to Electiony: 1 Day

Besides being the loneliest number that you ever knew, 1 happens to be the number of nations under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all that the United States is.

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