The Nearly $4 Billion Price Tag for the 2016 Midterm Elections
The Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks spending in U.S. politics and the effects it has on elections and policy, projects that nearly $4 billion will be spent during this year’s midterm elections. That figure accounts for the most spending on a midterm election to date, an estimated $333 million more spent this year than 2010’s $3.6 billion midterm spending.
“That figure makes this year’s election by far the most expensive midterm ever. The candidates and parties alone will combine to spend about $2.7 billion,
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