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Huh. As a non-American I was under the impression that the Romney camp was significantly out-spending Obama. What do the numbers look like if you add the earli
by goatforce5 14y ago
Huh. As a non-American I was under the impression that the Romney camp was significantly out-spending Obama.
What do the numbers look like if you add the earlier spending by the various Republican presidential candidates?
- sp332 14y agoIncumbents usually have an easier time raising money. They already have contacts from the first campaign just a few years ago. And I don't have any hard data but I was under the opposite impression.
- sixothree 14y agoThis impression may come from the money being spent supporting Romney by 'unaffiliated' Super PACs.
- goatforce5 14y agoAha. This is almost certainly the reason I was thinking that.
- msrpotus 14y agoMany organizations (both SuperPACs and "charities") aren't included there. It's believed that Republican groups are probably out-spending Democratic ones but because a lot of that advertising is done by groups that are supposed to be charities, they don't have to reveal what they spent or where they got the money from.