To easy to win with a very basic method.

Ok. I love this game. However I thing the "smear merchant" works to well. I can win an entire election or hardest setting with JUST a ton of smear merchants and NO campaigning. Every race I just build a load of PC gaining HQ's and I keep buying smear merchants for 1 state. In the next to last week I can be losing 62 to 38 and then it starts. I send out all my smear merchants from their base in TX and boom I won!

LOWER the effectiveness of the smear merchant.