The Center for Responsive Politics calculates that, by Election Day, $2.4 billion will have been spent on presidential campaigns in the two-year election cycle that began in January 2007, and an additional $2.9 billion will have been spent on 435 House and 35 Senate contests. This $5.3 billion is a billion less than Americans will spend this year on potato chips.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Cost of Democracy v. the Cost of Potato Chips
Conservative pundit George Will points out:
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