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You’d be better off lighting your money on fire than giving it to a politician to spend on TV ads

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Professor of the Practice of Data Science, Washington University in St Louis
Hillary Clinton may have lost to Donald Trump because she bought the wrong kind of adsAP/David Goldman

Alright, you want to make this country a better place for yourself, your children and the many generations to come. So you make a donation to a political candidate you believe will fight for a better country.

But, in reality, you are wasting your...

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