Doug Robinson: Just think what you could buy with $3B

Published: Monday, Oct. 29 2012 11:09 p.m. MDT

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The White House is not cheap. As of late last week, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama reached the $2 billion mark in money raised for their campaigns to move into the house on Pennsylvania Avenue. According to Kirk Jowers, director of the University of Utah's Hinckley Institute of Politics, if you include another $1 billion more spent by the super PACs and political parties on behalf of the candidates, then the price tag is closing in on $3 billion spent during a deep recession.

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one old man

Ogden, UT

The amount of money being spent by various groups on all sides to purchase our leaders is obscene.

Citizens United MUST be overturned. Campaign finance reform with teeth MUST be passed.

9:51 a.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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JWB

Kaysville, UT

It costs money to keep our nation free from despots and from people inside and outside that want to destroy our form of government for the people and by the people.

The new equation the Supreme Court of the United States of America More..

8:48 a.m. Oct. 31, 2012
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one vote

Salt Lake City, UT

How about Senator Hatch's 12 million campaign that was not needed?

6:55 a.m. Oct. 30, 2012
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Doug Robinson

Doug Robinson is a general columnist, sports columnist and feature writer for the Deseret News, where he has worked since 1978. He began his career as a sports writer. "Everything I am today I blame on Lee Benson," he more ..

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