Meanwhile, the Republican nominee, Mark Earley, a former missionary and anti-abortionist, has problems of his own.

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In a column called "The Big Hate, " Mr. Krugman seized upon two unrelated shootings in different cities - of a Kansas abortionist and a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum guard in Washington - to contend outrageously that disaffected conservatives and Iraq war veterans may pose a public threat.

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