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an hour ago2020 presidential election to be the most expensive in US history
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)In 1895, Mark Hanna, Senator of Ohio State, explained how politics worked in his day: “Two things are important in politics”, he said, the “money is money, second ... I don't remember what could be the second”. Some 125 years later, things have not changed much. In [...]
Some 125 years later, things have not changed much.
In every two years of electoral cycle in the United States, candidates and supporters spend billions of dollars to become public known, deliver their messages, and discredit their political rivals.
According to estimates, the 2016 presidential election cost $2.4 billion. This figure includes the expenses of different candidates and interest groups. ...and they had to be even more expensive, if Donald Trump wasn't based primarily on his campaign's unique strategy, free media coverage, instead of paid advertising.
However, that was an extremely large figure, larger than the economies of dozens of countries in the world that year. If you were to increase candidate spending for other federal positions, members and the House of Representatives and Senate, the total cost figure that year's election would be staggering, about $6.5 billion. /American Voice
