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Republican candidate Karen Handel effectively used Pelosi as a liberal boogeyman in her race against Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff.
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Every barking tweet from President Trump further cements our collective state of cultural psychosis, tilting at windmills in the shape of special prosecutors and the boogeyman of the mainstream media.
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In one way or another, politicians were often talking about the banlieues, which served as a kind of boogeyman, a stand-in for the social currents unsettling France.
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This is Green, the possible Defensive Player of the Year and some kind of Love boogeyman.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Move over Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Republicans have a new campaign boogeyman.
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Also, fear-mongering about special interest boogeymen was a common narrative pushed by 71 proponents.
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Now, many prominent political figures are wondering whether hopes for change were premature, and whether Moscow will inevitably remain Washington’s main boogeyman.
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But for our bearded boogeyman, who one character calls a priest and the devil in a single sentence, a shot to the head and one to the chest gets the job done quickly and efficiently.
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