$1.64 billion: Projected amount spent on Republican candidates and concerns in 2010.

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http://theweek.com/article/index/208843/the-most-expensive-midterms-ever-by-the-numbers

SO. I'M CERTAIN THAT THEY WILL BE FULLY AND QUICKLY WILLING TO SPEND THAT SORT OF MONEY UPON PROGRAMS WHICH WILL HELP THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. RIGHT?

It's a good talking point.

[Egnever]

1. wow

the amount of money going into campaigning these days is obscene.

I guess its the republicans doing their part to trickle down domes of that cash?

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3. It won't hurt to keep asking them about that, over and over.

Shame them into something resembling positive action.

[Drale]

2. I was saying that like 3 months ago

how much good could have been done if the republicans cared about the american people and put that money into social programs, even if it was just soup kitchens.

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5. Email that to Keith Olberman or Rachel Maddow, who might mention it on air

where it will cause the appropriate shame!!

[Drale]

6. The problem with MSNBC

is that only the left watches it, I doubt anyone on the right watches it.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. OMG! How many school lunches would that have bought?

Answer: about 800 million! That is a lot of children that could have been fed.

Instead, they used it to buy about 20-30 House seats and maybe a couple of Senate seats. The rest they would have gotten anyway from the normal midterm party out of power effect. That's a lot of money to spend just to throw up some more gridlock. Those House hearings we have been hearing so much about had better be something. I expect showgirls, flaming hoops, trained tigers---the whole works---if it cost them $1.6 billion to produce them.

[hayu_lol]

7. Much of that money was from foreign-based...

corporations laundered through the U.S. Chamber Of Commerce.

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10. Yeah...holy crap.

(I really want a "forehead slap" emoticon at the DU...)

[flamingdem]

8. Thanks for the article fire nt

[WCGreen]

9. The thing is the money is recycled to some to the wealthiest people

because of all the media that was purchased with all that cash..

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11. Yes. "This is how they do it."

[AndyTiedye]

12. How Much Do You Think They Will Spend to Buy the 2012 Elections?

My guess is somewhere upwards of ten billion.

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13. Kick for spending money in the right places.