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Joel Stein is worried about Barack Obama's chances on Tuesday. Not because of the Bradley Effect, mind you, but because of a phenomenon Stein dubs "the Urkel effect, which holds that voters leaning toward Obama will walk into the voting booth and suddenly think, I cannot take four years of listening to that giant-eared nerd." Stein argues that Obama's secret nerdiness has revealed itself over the past few months, as "he's earnest like C-3PO, emotionless like Spock, overly practical like Encyclopedia Brown and incredibly skinny like C-3PO, Spock and Encyclopedia Brown." Oh, and also, Stein doesn't think Obama can dance, so that's landed him in the nerd category as well. Listen here, Joel Stein: as a nerd, I can tell you this: I know uncool when I see it, and Barack Obama is anything but uncool. More »
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