Saturday, March 3, 2012

A BALLOT BOX FULL OF CHARACTERS.(MAIN)

Byline: TED ANTHONY Associated Press

There's an election in this country on Tuesday, and in a land where the race for the highest office is the biggest saga of all, an array of oddities -- bits of jetsam that wash up on the banks of the American electoral river -- are, as usual, providing useful distraction.

Bubba the Love Sponge, the nasty-boy Florida deejay -- a guy who specialized in radio shows that included on-air sex talk by George Jetson and Scooby-Doo -- is running for sheriff in Pinellas County, a retirement haven.

His Republican opponent, Chief Deputy Jim Coats, says, ``I don't think he's sheriff material.''

In Indiana, it's now …

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