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Video Report: Iowans Talk About Negative Ads

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Video Report: Iowans Talk About Negative Ads
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We talked with Iowa voters about negative advertisements and the role they played in how they voted on Election Day.

These voters spoke on Nov. 4, 2014, about their views on negative ads regardless of their political party. Overall, these interviews had a sense of cynicism towards these ads.


Take a news quiz about the truth behind four attack ads in Iowa’s U.S. Senate race:
News quiz by Lauren Mills/IowaWatch

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