President Gerald Ford, only had to shell out a mere $22 million to stay in the hunt for the White House. The price tag to move into the country’s most famousaddress by January 2009 could run somewhere near the $85 million dollar mark and that doesn’t even include move-in fees. Talk about inflation.
This is also counting on the end result being victory; otherwise you would be spending the GDP of Somalia for nothing. In an interview with The Washington Post in March 2006, the Federal Election Commission Chairman Michael E. Toner said, “There is a growing sense that there is going to be a $100 million entry fee at the end of 2007 to be considered a serious candidate." With that said, here’s a look at how much it has cost to at least be a contender in the last 9 presidential elections. |
