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For the past six months, political TV ads have extolled the virtues of presidential hopefuls, tore down opponents and in one instance, set pastoral scenes to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel. 

So, which strategy worked? One things for sure: Iowans prefer nice over nasty.


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Carrie Levine joined the Center for Public Integrity in October 2014 as a federal politics reporter investigating...