American election campaign costs out of control
The price of a presidency
This year’s US elections are likely to cost around $5 billion — from personal fortunes, super-PACs and dark money.
by Anne Deysine
The current election campaign will be the most expensive in US history. Each election since the 1970s has set a new record and this has accelerated recently. In 2008 the combined expenditure on elections for the presidency, the House of Representatives and Senate, and local referendums rose to (...)
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