<p>You know it's an election year when the President of the United States is tweeting about the <a type="internal">NFL's referee apocalypse</a>.</p> 
<q> <p>NFL fans on both sides of the aisle hope the refs' lockout is settled soon. -bo</p> - Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/250651756789366784" type="external">September 25, 2012</a> </q> 
<p>Obama's Twitter feed then pointed to a recent telephone interview with WTAM-AM in Cleveland, in which the POTUS pined for the return of locked-out officals.</p> 
<p>"But one thing I got to say, though, is it just me or do we have to get our regular refs back?" Obama asked WTAM's Bill Willis ( <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/171186751.html" type="external">via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a>). "I can't get involved with it, but I'm just expressing my point of view as a sports fan."</p> 
<p>In a potentially related story, Mitt Romney has dropped Paul Ryan as his running mate in favor of <a href="http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/the-huddle/2012/05/25/edx-large.jpg" type="external">Ed Hochuli</a>.</p> 
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President Barack Obama tweets about locked-out refs