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WASHINGTON — Special interest groups that flooded the airwaves with TV commercials before Election Day paid a stiff price as they attempted to influence the presidential election and other contests, according to a new report on political ad spending.
The report also noted that federal law requires TV stations to offer candidates their cheapest rates for ads, but they routinely wound up charging more — about two-thirds more than those rates — because they couldn’t guarantee candidates those ads would stay in desirable time slots unless the candidates paid premium rates.
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