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GOP Gets In on ‘Breaking Bad’ Mania With ‘Breaking Dems’

By Jason Dick
Posted September 27, 2013 at 3:16pm

Perhaps it is a good time for AMC’s “Breaking Bad” to wrap things up. Once politics gets a hold of you, it’s only a matter of time before you jump the shark, and the story of chemistry-teacher-turned-drug lord Walter White has assiduously amped up the pressure, avoiding the shark-infested pop Rubicon so far.

Case in point? The National Republican Congressional Committee has started selling its “Breaking Dems” poster, a riff on the Emmy-award winning show that spells out its targets for the 2014 cycle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ZGKI8vpcg

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