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Campaign ads passed to the rival's campaign, press releases about a candidate's (incorrect) record in personal voting, congressional candidate aides greeting visitors to a competitor's event by shouting ethnic slurs, duck costumes.
And, of course, the subsequent outrage from the candidates who are just shocked -- shocked, I tell you -- that politics has fallen to this level..
Remember: we're trying to export this notion of how democracy works.
We can have better days. We just have to try.
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