Where the money goes.

• Author: Lueders, Bill
• Position: SMOKING GUN - Brief article

Even in the era of Super PACs, pundits watch how much candidates raise for their campaigns. But they often overlook how the money is spent. Campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission show that, through September 30, the twenty-one candidates for President collectively made about 45,000 individual expenditures totaling more than $150 million. We looked through the...