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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (105110)	12/1/2011 2:13:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

A little bit of good news.....for those who don't like how much money is spent on politics. Republican primary is shaping up to one of the cheapest in more than a decade The top nine Republican candidates spent $53 million through September, compared with $132 million spent at the same time four years ago. The sum is even lower than totals reported during the same period in the 2004 and 2000 primaries -- when most candidates still were abiding by campaign spending limits in order to receive public matching money. In the crowded Democratic primary in 2004, the candidates had spent $58 million through Sept. 30, 2003. Four years prior, a primary field of ten Republican candidates had spent $68 million in the first three quarters of 1999. One major difference is a profusion of televised debates -- 11 so far -- negating the need for costly commercials. read more......................... washingtonpost.com