Kasz216 on 04 December 2012
| chapset said: except Romney got outspent by Obama $874.6 million The amount that went toward Obama's re-election this election cycle, with the Obama campaign burning through $553.2 million, the DNC spending $263.2 million, and the biggest Obama Super PACS spending $58 million. $844.6 million The amount that went toward Romney's candidacy this cycle, with the campaign spending $360.4 million, the RNC adding $284 million, and Super PACs adding $200 million. $265 million The gap between the amount President Obama and Mitt Romney spent on TV ads through Oct. 29. In sum, the president spent far more. If you combine the ad spending, it amounts to more than one million television ads purchased by the campaigns and their supporters. The Wesleyan Media Project, which gathered the numbers, has a chart of this increase in ads. the guy with the most money won, when Super Pacs get bigger and bigger I can see this trend continuing, the Super Pacs weren't big enough this time around but who knows in the future note: the number raised change from site to site but Obama is in the lead in most of them http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/11/most-expensive-election-history-numbers/58745/ |
Those numbers change quite a bit from site to site indeed.
Though aren't you just making the same point? In otherwords, Citizens United was overblown since the amount of money it contributed was actually small compaired to other sources?
Additionally, if we compare money spent per electoral vote... how does that play out?
