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The Drudge Report plays up an Obama campaign video urging voters to take off from work Election Day to help get out the vote, using the headline: "OBAMA SAYS TAKE 'DAY OFF' WORK FOR ELECTION" and a picture of Obama with a thumbs up sign.

Comes day after he contributed to publicizing an Obama interview from 2001 the the GOP was circulating by keeping it his lede most of the day, using the headline: "2001 OBAMA: TRAGEDY THAT 'REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH' NOT PURSUED BY SUPREME COURT." He linked to the video.

Follows recent pattern of posting things that seem not to help Obama -- including Biden's Orlando TV interview, the closer sets of polling data and more.

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