{"id":12619,"date":"2015-06-09T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12619"},"modified":"2016-02-22T21:54:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T02:54:21","slug":"making-a-billion-dollars-isnt-cool-you-know-whats-cool-spending-a-billion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/making-a-billion-dollars-isnt-cool-you-know-whats-cool-spending-a-billion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Making A Billion Dollars Isn\u2019t Cool. You Know What\u2019s Cool? Spending A Billion Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/060915_1205_MakingABill1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the battle for 2016 heats up, Stephanie Stamm looked at how Obama managed to burn through a billion dollars in running for President:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2012 Obama spent over $700 million on advertizing alone.<\/li>\n<li>A few media industry giants got a lion&#8217;s share of the revenues from the campaign. Obama&#8217;s top advertizing firm got close to $400 million.<\/li>\n<li>Consultants also raked in the cash. A direct marketing consultant group made $30 million from the campaign.<\/li>\n<li>And then there are administrative services. American Express provided $2.3 million worth of services.<\/li>\n<li>The life of a candidate and their team is hectic. United Airlines was team Obama&#8217;s carrier of choice and made $1.1 million even though the President has access to his own jet.<\/li>\n<li>And there are, of course, the late night strategy and debate prep sessions. Domino&#8217;s catered for these, getting close to $10,000 in the process.<\/li>\n<li>The campaign staff was, however, dangerously uncaffeinated, spending only $500 at Starbucks.<\/li>\n<li>Kitty Purry \u2013 Katy Perry&#8217;s production company \u2013 was paid $128,000 though it&#8217;s unclear why.<\/li>\n<li>This analysis doesn&#8217;t even count the amount spent by &#8220;Super PACs&#8221;. In 2012 they spent $580 million. In 2016 that&#8217;s projected to increase to $1.8 billion.<\/li>\n<li>With the incredible number of Presidential candidates this election cycle, 2016 is likely to break all fund raising records.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See some really well done charts, and read more details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2016-elections\/how-do-presidential-candidates-spend-1-billion-20150608\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/2016-elections\/how-do-presidential-candidates-spend-1-billion-20150608\">National Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the battle for 2016 heats up, Stephanie Stamm looked at how Obama managed to burn through a billion dollars in running for President: In 2012 Obama spent over $700 million on advertizing alone. A few media industry giants got a lion&#8217;s share of the revenues from the campaign. Obama&#8217;s top advertizing firm got close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-12619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-american-elections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/060915_1205_MakingABill1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12623,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12619\/revisions\/12623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}