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10/21/10

USA: November elections: In Ohio, deluge of negative ads is wearing voters down - by Matea Gold

The accusations rain down on Cathy Wyatt throughout the day as she brews espresso drinks at Carpe Diem, a cozy downtown coffee shop inundated by sharp-toned political ads blaring from a television above the counter.

"You just have to tune them out, because if you believed any of them, every single person should be in jail," Wyatt said with a weary chuckle. "There'd be nobody left to vote for."

But ignoring political advertising is a tough feat in Ohio's 16th Congressional District, which has seen one of the year's biggest influxes of third-party campaign spending in House races as Republicans try to wrest the seat from Rep. John Boccieri, a freshman Democrat.

For more: In Ohio, deluge of negative ads is wearing voters down - Los Angeles Times

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