{"id":28172,"date":"2016-05-01T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T01:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28172"},"modified":"2016-05-01T21:04:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T01:04:55","slug":"who-has-spent-the-most-money-in-the-2016-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28172","title":{"rendered":"Who Has Spent The Most Money In The 2016 Presidential Campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/guess_who_is_the_biggest_spender_so_far_in_the_presidential_campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\">The American Thinker<\/a> posted an article today about spending in the 2016 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Political campaign\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Political_campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Presidential Campaign<\/a>. The article reminds us that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bernie Sanders\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sanders.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Bernie Sanders<\/a> has continually railed against &#8216;the big money in politics.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The small-dollar fundraising juggernaut that has kept Bernie Sanders\u2019s insurgent <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8976694444,-77.03655&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8976694444,-77.03655 (White%20House)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">White House<\/a> bid afloat far longer than anticipated has generated another unexpected impact: a financial windfall for his team of Washington consultants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>By the end of March, the self-described <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Democratic socialism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democratic_socialism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">democratic socialist<\/a> senator from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Vermont\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=44.0,-72.7&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=44.0,-72.7 (Vermont)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Vermont<\/a> had spent nearly $166\u00a0million on his campaign \u2014 more than any other 2016 presidential contender, including rival Hillary Clinton. More than $91\u00a0million went to a small group of admakers and media buyers who produced a swarm of commercials and placed them on television, radio and online, according to a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Washington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Washington Post<\/a> analysis of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Election Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fec.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Federal Election Commission<\/a> reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>The article includes the following graph:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016CampaignSpending.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016CampaignSpending.png\" alt=\"2016CampaignSpending\" width=\"603\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016CampaignSpending.png 603w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016CampaignSpending-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016CampaignSpending-385x300.png 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a>I guess it was okay to complain about the money before you were actually receiving it.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Thinker posted an article today about spending in the 2016 Presidential Campaign. The article reminds us that Bernie Sanders has continually railed against &#8216;the big money in politics.&#8217; The article reports: The small-dollar fundraising juggernaut that has kept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=28172\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9938,7078,9937,1457],"class_list":["post-28172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2016-campaign-spending","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democratic-socialism","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28174,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28172\/revisions\/28174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}