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