2012 Campaign Spending: What They Shelled Out To Win You

2012 Campaign Spending: What They Shelled Out In Win You Romney Johnson Obama Stein Total Raised Total Spent Electoral Votes/Popular Votes 332/62,610,717 BARACK $632,177,423 OBAMA $540,812,931 Obama AKTI6655 206/59,136,717 MITT $389,088,268 ROMNEY $336,399,297 Romney 0/1,191,420 GARY $2,317,996 E7766554S JOHNSON $2.282.292 Johnson 0/420,515 JILL $893,636 AET766558 85 STEIN S882.354 Stein 31 Cost Per Vote Barack Obama DEM $8.64 Joe Biden O Mitt Romney Paul Ryan REP $5.69 O Jill Stein Cheri Honkala GRE $2.10 O Gary Johnson LBT $1.92 James P. Gray $5.00 $10.00 $O AETTE65S8 Historical Campaign Splurges 1860 1968 1992 2000 2012 The Shocking Comparisons Surprisingly enough, the numbers listed above for how much each candidate spent doesn't include National Party and outside spending. Below are listed the real total amounts for five critical elections covering almost 200 years. Note that the records that could be found for Lincoln's campaign expenditures have been converted to match the value of the dollar today. To put things in further perspective, when Obama spent $730 million to get into office in 2008, that amounts to 260 times what Lincoln spent to win his spot in the White House in 1860. Lincoln $2.8 Million Obama/Romney $2 Billion 1868 2012 INixon/Humphrey/Wallace $600 Million Clinton/Bush/Perot $300 Million 1968 1992 Bush/Gore $450 Million 10 AE7766558 100 2000 References: http://www.opensecrets.org http://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/02/historic-price-cost-presidential-elections