The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
The Strategists Pt. 1
Season 18 E 17 • 10/31/2012
An eighth-grade student council election gets nasty as political strategists John Oliver and Jason Jones spin for their respective 12-year-old candidates.

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The Strategists Pt. 1
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