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The most expensive US election in history

November 4, 2008

Text: Suman Guha Mozumder

The 2008 US federal contests, including the presidential election, will be unprecedented in American history not just because of Senator Barack Obama, the first black American contesting for the White House, but also for the whopping costs it entails.

According to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics more than $5.3 billion will go towards financing the federal contests on November 4.

Image: A church sign encouraging people to vote stands in an African-American neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama. | Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

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