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The good news of 2016

When the historians look back at the 2016 presidential race, will they even want to?

So bad, so depressing, so damaging. Or was it?

This was a year when an unknown senator and a non-politician went much farther than predicted, while spending much less money than was assumed to be necessary.

Bernie Sanders, who spent more than Trump, raised it from regular people, without a Super-PAC, with a famous average donation of $27.

Trump's unconventional campaign was cheap, by current presidential standards.

Both Sanders and Trump proved that if you run for president and are an actually-interesting spea...

 

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