A Tangled Web: Who’s Making Money From All This Campaign Spending?

September 20, 2012

by Al Shaw, Kim Barker and Justin Elliott, ProPublica

This interactive investigation showing the flow of money from candidates and super PACS to ad agencies, consultants, telemarketers, printing companies, airlines, even Staples and FedEx, was first published by our friends at ProPublica. Click on the green and red boxes to explore by spender or the gray boxes for recipients. Note that the totals are accurate as of May 2012.

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TOPICS: Democracy & Government, Money & Politics

TAGS: dark money, money and politics, propublica, super pac

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http://www.facebook.com/kliman Dave ר Kliman
this chart is only showing a tiny portion of the money being spent/made because it’s talking about advertising firms, not the networks that are getting all the money. I’d like to see which networks are getting money, and how much… Who thinks that coverage of the election isn’t affected by huge advertising payments?
http://www.facebook.com/suzie.wallen.rupnow Suzie Wallen Rupnow
This format – having to individually click on one element at a time is way too involved for an average person to see & compare where the money comes from or where it goes. It is however, beautiful visually, as a piece of art to hang in the lobby of a financial institution.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=646389468 Michal Mudd
I guess the money Jill Stein is paying a union shop to print her campaign signs or the production of her tv ad probably isn’t included. That’s a darn shame. It would certainly show the contrast between grassroots third party campaigns and the monstrosities that masquerade as democracy.