Democratic Debate Bingo makes game out of political buzzwords

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it's actually an ingenius idea. we should have bingo parties too.
NHPrimary.com

It's another Democratic presidential debate, probably the 37th or so, and Savelieff and some of her comrades in the College Republicans at American University have gathered to watch and snicker and hoot - and play Democratic Debate Bingo.

They're squeezed into a tiny room upstairs at the student union building, listening carefully, bingo cards on their knees. On the television screen, Tom Brokaw directs a question about Medicare reform to Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo.

The wits at the Republican National Committee debuted Democratic Debate Bingo in time for the Oct. 9 debate in Arizona, and since then, the games on the committee's Web site have registered nearly 39,000 hits, according to RNC press secretary Christine Iverson.

You print out a card to play at home and keep track of what the RNC says are the "predictable phrases, accusations and attacks" peppering the Democrats' rhetoric. The bingo card has a donkey for the center square and the occasional Democratic mug shot.

The phrases include, but are not limited to:

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