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With the sting of being named Hollywood's official scapegoat for John Kerry's election failure finally starting to fade, Ben Affleck is now taking heat for the bad career moves he didn't make. Affleck sensibly wanted to keep a low profile and rejected director Kevin Smith's overture to star with him in the Canadian teen soap opera Degrassi: The Next Generation, yet still winds up getting flogged for the very mention of his name. At this point, it might take five years on a media blackout vision-quest in the Himalayas to make the poll numbers even out. And even then he'd probably have to spend the first three years explaining Gigli to some Buddhist monks with an US Weekly subscription.