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I hate to be the bearer of bad news. I know we all want the election madness to end – at least those of us who are not political consultants, pollsters, potential candidates, and reporters – but it’s not over on Tuesday.

In fact, it’s just beginning. Because Election Day no longer decides anything: It’s merely the dividing line between one political campaign and the next.

And what’s worse, elections are no longer about policy or about determining the future of the country. Instead they have become one of two things: either a referendum on President Trump or a verdict on whose ads were most effective in destroying the opposition candidate.

Let’s skin the last skunk first. Political advertising as a general rule is the reason decent American citizens all despise politics, the dark art of getting elected.

Dirty ads are nothing new. We all remember the Willie Horton ad that helped get George H.W. Bush elected president over Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1988, and there are numerous other examples through the........

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