What if this is as good as it gets?

Campaign ads passed to the rival's campaign, press releases about a candidate's (incorrect) record in personal voting, congressional candidate aides greeting visitors to a competitor's event by shouting ethnic slurs, duck costumes.

And, of course, the subsequent outrage from the candidates who are just shocked -- shocked, I tell you -- that politics has fallen to this level..

Remember: we're trying to export this notion of how democracy works.

We can have better days. We just have to try.

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