Data Points: Presidential Campaign Spending

Barack Obama's $150 million September fundraising total is over a fifth of the total amount of money all the presidential candidates spent in the 2004 election.

October 21, 2008 RSS Feed Print
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$150 million: Obama's fundraising haul for September

$47 million: Amount that McCain had for spending between October 1 and Election Day

$345 million: Total spent by George W. Bush in the 2004 election

$310 million: Total spent by John Kerry in the 2004 election

$717.9 million: Total spending by presidential candidates in 2004

$343.1 million: Total spending by presidential candidates in 2000

$239.9 million: Total spending by presidential candidates in 1996

$192.2 million: Total spending by presidential candidates in 1992

$210.7 million: Total spending by presidential candidates in 1988

$103.6 million: Total spending by presidential candidates in 1984

$92.3 million: Total spending by presidential candidates in 1980

$66.9 million: Total spending by presidential candidates in 1976

Sources: OpenSecrets.org (Bush data, Kerry data), Associated Press

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Deman of IL 2:29PM February 15, 2009

Where can I find out what each party spent per presidential election in each election since 1960?

Mick of CA 10:59AM November 04, 2008

If he can raise this much money for an election campaign; imagine what he could do for the country. Imagine what his ideas could do for our economy, jobs and health care.

One way to add a quick 10 billion per month to our economy would be to end the war in Iraq.

b33z of NV 11:01AM November 01, 2008

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