Nearly 100,000 negative ads helped turn tide in Florida elections

The 2014 election is over — in nearly every race — and voters can now turn on their televisions without being inundated with political ads. Here’s a tally of how the TV ad wars played out, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of preliminary data from media tracking firm Kantar Media/CMAG.

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