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Jay Nixon takes crack at election day tweet, fails

By  Chad Merda
   
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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon wanted people to drag their butts to the polls on Tuesday, so a tweet was sent out from his account showing him voting.

The only problem? The woman next to him not only got her butt to the poll, but let it all hang out.

The tweet was deleted, but not before everyone else took a crack at making her be the butt of a joke.


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