What I think is good or bad is not the issue. Political parties play a high-stakes game and are in it to win, period. They don't care about the American people in any but the abstractest sense. They want to win, they want power. And they'll do anything within the rules to get it.
My preferences are for clean races, but I'm very realistic. In this country, 'clean' = 'passes legal muster' and maybe that's the best we can hope for.
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