Today's Water Cooler lineup of off the beaten path online stories are: Scozzafava Robocalls For Democrat Doug Hoffman, Rep. Jim Moran compares the GOP to the Taliban, and New Jersey Democrats pay for Independent Candidate's Robocalls.

• HotAirPundit.com:  Scozzafava Robocalls For Democrat Doug Hoffman in New York

Hi, this is Dede Scozzafava calling on behalf of Bill Owens. And I wanted to let you know that I am supporting Bill for Congress.

• Weasel Zippers: Rep. Jim Moran: "If Republicans Were Running in Afghanistan, They'd Be On The Taliban Ticket"....

At a get-out-the-vote rally in Fairfax County, Moran said: “I mean, if the Republicans were running in Afghanistan, they’d be running on the Taliban ticket as far as I can see.”

• Townhall: New Jersey Dems Paying for Independent Candidate's Robocalls

The phone commercial concludes with the legalize saying it was "a project of the NJDSC"--the New Jersey Democratic State Committee--and the address given is the NJDSC's headquarters in Trenton.

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