Thursday, June 11, 2015

From the National Journal: HOW DO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SPEND $1 BILLION

The 2016 elections are predicted to shatter all previous spending records.

To figure our where all the money was spent on, the authors investigated Obama's 2012 spending - which totaled over $750 million.

- Click here for the article.

Most of the money was spend on advertisement. No big surprise. One major change in 2016 will be the increased amount of outside spending. These are now largely unrestricted and often are undisclosed.

Here's a graphical breakdown of the Obama campaign's spending: