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US voters endure election 'attack ad' fatigue
Presidential candidates spend millions on critical ads, but voters growing weary of the negativity.
Last Modified: 30 Jul 2012 08:30

With the US election less than a hundred days away, President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are spending millions of dollars airing negative ads about each other.

And a new poll shows that voters are getting tired of it all.

Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports.

 

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