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Wanna Get Away From Romney or Obama’s America? JetBlue Will Evacuate You

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Posted on Oct 3, 2012
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The airline is raffling off 1,000 free tickets to foreign destinations for sore losers who can’t stand the idea of living under the other guy’s rule.

They’re calling it “election protection,” and the tickets are for round-trip flights in case evacuees want to come back and give Obamacare or Medicare vouchers a try.

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“We’ve all heard it said before: if my candidate does not win, I’m leaving the country,” senior vice president for marketing Marty St. George said in a statement.

“We decided to give people a chance to recover from the political noise and follow through on their claim to skip town if their candidate comes up short.”

Participants will need to go on the JetBlue website, choose their candidate, and sign in through Facebook to be eligible to win one of over 1,000 tickets that will be given away to those whose guy fails to win the White House.

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—Posted by Peter Z. Scheer. Follow him on Twitter: @peesch.

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