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Deconstructing Campaign Finance: Most Americans Unfamiliar with Outside Campaign Spending

By Sarah Lewis and Ianthe Metzger | Economy

With less than 100 days until the election, campaign finance is a topic that everybody in Washington, D.C., and on TV is talking about. Yet according to a  recent poll by the Washington Post  and the Pew Research Center, most Americans are unfamiliar with outside campaign spending and don’t know important terms and concepts.

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