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The research behind campaign ads

Slate’s Sasha Issenberg, Facebook co-founder and the Obama campaign’s chief digital organizer in 2008 Chris Hughes, Yahoo! News’ Walter Shapiro, and Democratic strategist Bob Shrum discuss the researching being done on political ads, who the ads are targeting, and whether or not the ads will make a difference in the outcome of elections.