The presidential and legislative elections in November will be the most expensive ever in the United States, moving close to 5.8 billion dollars (4.7 billion euros), according to non-governmental organization Center for Responsive Politics.
Based on activity data fundraising campaign by the two presidential campaigns and the two parties, Republican and Democrat, over the past 18 months, CRP predicted today a 7% increase compared to 2008 elections, which turn had already broken records.
However, this assumes that forecasts are "complicated" to do, given that spending by entities outside the campaigns are expanding, including political movements ("Super PAC") that can receive unlimited amounts of funds, often diffuse sources , which then apply in support of their candidates.
The CRP notes that this is the first full electoral cycle since the Supreme Court decision to allow the so-called "Super PAC", is expected to entities outside the campaigns to invest close to $ 750 million (610 million).
"More important than the total spent," said director of CRP, Sheila Krumholz, "the big difference this cycle is the size of the portion of that money coming from supposedly independent groups, often secret."
For the total sum calculated by the PRC is still 2.5 billion (two billion) of the campaigns of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, nearly a billion dollars (813 million) of the two parties, as well as a 8 billion dollars (1.4 billion) of funds from Congress.
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