I mean, it's also possible that targeted advertising is just that much better than previous methods of advertising... I'm just bringing up the possibility.
It would be interesting to look at other major advances in advertising technology and see what excesses they produced. I mean, it's not quite the same, but it is said that in the Kennedy/Nixon debates, people who listened on the radio thought Nixon won, while those watching TV thought Kennedy won. I mean, it was another inflection point in advertising where new advertising technologies possibly gave us a different president.
But in America, it goes beyond where you live being predictive of how you vote; in America, in a real way, we give land votes; a person in a less populous state has dramatically more effect on the outcome of an election than a person in a more populous state.
(and then, of course, the obvious; we do have dramatically different laws in different states. )
Solution B: free speech in real life.