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A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yells at a demonstrator after Trump canceled his rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago on March 11, 2016.

Just how uncivil is Election 2016? MIT’s Media Lab has some charts you should see.

April 28, 2016Global Politics

“You don’t have to be an MIT scientist to know that the presidential campaign has often been lewd, crude, and rude. But it helps.”

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