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5 better ways we could spend the $4B wasted on this year’s campaigns 

It’s official: 2014 will be the most expensive midterm election cycle ever.

Candidates and the “outside groups” who love them are on track to spend nearly $4 billion, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics. This represents an explosion of spending that should worry anyone concerned about the corrupting influence of money in politics.

Sound like a waste of money? It sure did to us. So we came up with more worthwhile things to spend that $4 billion on. | Follow micdotcom