[EL] 2012 presidential spending by corps and unions

Tue Nov 13 13:54:52 PST 2012

What is the latest on Romney and Obama's spending?

Also, how much money did the media spend on influencing the election?   Jim

In a message dated 11/13/2012 4:49:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
skrumholz at crp.org writes:

Thanks  for the citations. And here are our latest figures for (disclosed)  
contributions to outside spending groups that spent any money on the  2012 
presidential race:

Viewpt Indiv/Org Business Ideo Labor Other  Non-Ideological Organization 
$8,454  $7,500  $0  $0   Non-Ideological Individual  $95,462  $0  $0  $20,534  
 Conservative Organization $58,265,484  $7,104,642  $0  $185,000   
Conservative Individual  $212,898,800  $815,997  $0  $18,677,285    Liberal 
Organization $8,381,896  $7,202,242  $55,304,956  $275,500   Liberal Individual  
$86,264,961  $2,735,718  $34,750  $23,862,216    Total:
$365,915,057  $17,866,099  $55,339,706  $43,020,535 
If you  wish to have these emailed to you in Excel, please let me know. If 
you have  questions about the methodology used, please contact CRP 
researcher Robert  Maguire at _rmaguire at crp.org_ (mailto:rmaguire at crp.org) . We will 
be adding this  analysis to the OpenSecrets.org Outside Spending section  
soon.

Sheila

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On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Beckel, Michael 
<_mbeckel at publicintegrity.org_ (mailto:mbeckel at publicintegrity.org) > wrote:

Here at the Center for Public Integrity, we did a joint  analysis with the 
Center for Responsive Politics that focused strictly on  donors to super 
PACs. We found that companies had contributed about $75  million to super PACs 
from their treasuries, while unions contributed about  $60 million, through 
Oct. 17th. Overall, super PACs collectively raised  about $660 million 
through that date.

That investigation can be found  here:
_http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/11/02/11689/mystery-firm-elections-top-
corporate-donor-53-million_ 
(http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/11/02/11689/mystery-firm-elections-top-corporate-donor-53-million) 

Seconding  what Rick said, both the Center for Responsive Politics and 
Sunlight  Foundation would be good places to look for more detailed  numbers.

Sincerely,
Michael Beckel
Reporter
Center for  Public Integrity

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Subject: Re: [EL] 2012  presidential spending by corps and unions

Here's a great place to  start:

_http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/index.php_ 
(http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/index.php) 

On  11/13/12 9:15 AM, _john.k.tanner at gmail.com_ 
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