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Originally Posted by lostalex
Umm, but Obama actually has national duties. You know, he's a democratically elected leader, not just an inbred monarch.
Do i really have to explain the very VAST differences?
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Every year,
the cost for presidential campaign has been increasing significantly. As a matter of fact, if the costs being shelled out by both the Republican and Democratic parties for their campaigns are added the cost will reach more than twice than that of the cost eight years before. As an example, in the year 1996, the cost was
$448.9 million and in 2000 it was
$649.5 million. In 2004, the cost soared to
$1.01 billion.
Imagine that huge amount of money. You can actually run a small country with it, or finance some third world universities, or help relieve the hunger in Africa.
http://english.sina.com/world/1/<b>2...15/141641.html
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The outcome of the 2008 White House election remains up in the air, but one thing is certain -- the bid to succeed President George W. Bush will be the most expensive race in history.
Common estimates of this year's total outlay have tended to come in at around one billion dollars, and Fortune magazine recently upped its overall cost projection to $3 billion.
As a historical comparison, the campaign two decades ago that saw Republican George H.W. Bush succeed Ronald Reagan at the White House cost 59 million dollars.
Historians believe that the nation's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, spent 100,000 dollars in his bid to take the executive office in 1860.
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