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7 What do you really not want to see in a political commercial this year?

ALEX CASTELLANOS replies:

I'd love not to see candidates doing it for the children. When, you know, it's, it's kind of the last refuge of the scoundrel used to be patriotism, now it's doing it for the children. I don't know, you know, I think voters are so much smarter than people give them credit for. They're very cynical now about the process because they have a right to be. The product doesn't work very well. And so, all the salesman are kind of looked upon as scants. So, I think voters are, you know, they'll tune out the stuff that's far from the truth.

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