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Sunday, November 8, 2009

November 07, 2006

Most Expensive Campaigns for 2000, 2002, and 2004

Posted at 9:22 PM ET by Stephanie Salmon

Winners in bold

Senate

  1. New York Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) vs. Rick Lazio (R) $70,494,068 (2000)
  2. New Jersey Jon Corzine (D) vs. Bob Franks (R) $69,850,589 (2000)
  3. South Dakota John Thune (R) vs. Tom Daschle (D) $36,005,713 (2004)
  4. Virginia George Allen (R) vs. Charles Robb (D) $26,980,613 (2000)
  5. North Carolina Elizabeth Dole (R) vs. Erskine Bowles (D) $26,936,787 (2002)
  6. Pennsylvania Arlen Specter (R) vs. Joseph Hoeffel (D) $26,797,959 (2004)
  7. North Carolina Richard Burr (R) vs. Erskine Bowles (D) $26,258,235 (2004)
  8. Florida Mel Martinez (R) vs. Betty Castor (D) $23,877,684 (2004)
  9. California Barbara Boxer (D) vs. Bill Jones (R) $22,903,537 (2004)
  10. Michigan Deborah Stabenow (D) vs. Spencer Abraham (R) $22,574,847 (2000)

House

  1. California 27, Adam Schiff (D) vs. James Rogan (R) $11,540,051 (2000
  2. West Virginia 2, Shelly Moore Capito (R) vs. James Humphreys (D) $10,630,315 (2002)
  3. Texas 32, Pete Sessions (R) vs. Martin Frost (D) $9,257,252 (2004)
  4. West Virginia 2, Shelley Moore Capito (R) vs. James Humphreys (D) $8,253,159 (2000)
  5. Missouri 3, Richard Gephardt (D) vs. Bill Federer (R) $7,897,638 (2000)
  6. Georgia 7, Bob Barr (R) vs. Roger Kahn (D) $7,434,880 (2000)
  7. South Dakota 1, Stephanie Herseth (D) vs. Larry William Diedrich (R) $6,553,104 (2004)
  8. Pennsylvania 13, Allyson Schwartz (D) vs. Melissa Brown (R) $6,511,977 (2004)
  9. Florida 7, John Mica (R) vs. Wayne Hogan (D) $6,415,467 (2002)
  10. Maryland 8, Chris Van Hollen (D) vs. Connie Morella (R) $5,970,754 (2002)

Source: opensecrets.org


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