For convenience, STATES, TERRITORIES, and STATES_AND_TERRITORIES can be accessed directly from the us module: >>> us.states.STATES [<State:Alabama>, <State:Alaska>, <State:Arizona>, <State:Arkansas>,... >>> us.STATES [<State:Alabama>, <State:Alaska>, <State:Arizona>, <State:Arkansas>,...
WITH nearly every American election cycle new spending records are broken. This autumn's midterm elections are nearly nine months away, but already candidates in Kentucky's Senate race have raised $19.4m and spent $7.3m. In the 2012 cycle candidates in the Massachusetts Senate race alone spent over $85m. That is small change compared with that year's presidential contest, in which $2 billion was spent (the total cost of the 2012 elections, including congressional races, topped $7 billion).
for those of you who are not familiar with the idea of campaign finance let me try and explain it in the simplest of terms every politician and political party that runs for elections does so by running a campaign it costs money to get elected to parliament or any office for that mattercandidates often spend hundreds of millions of rupees during election campaigns to improve their chances of getting electedor those of you who are not familiar with the idea of campaign finance let me try and explain it in the simplest of terms every politician and political party that runs for elections does so by running a campaign it costs money to get elected to parliament or any office for that matter