Perspective: Campaign spending

[Pam]

"The Center for Responsive Politics calculates that, by Election Day, $2.4 billion will have been spent on presidential campaigns in the two-year election cycle that began in January 2007, and an additional $2.9 billion will have been spent on 435 House and 35 Senate contests. This $5.3 billion is a billion less than Americans will spend this year on potato chips."

Ugh. Potato chips???

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...03199.html