Campaigns spend big to sway voters with increasingly personal attack ads
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- PBS NewsHour reports: “Campaigns and their allies are making their closing arguments, and they've spent more than the annual budgets of a handful of states doing it. Much of that money is aimed at voters' wallets, but th…”
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