{"id":6499,"date":"2012-10-27T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6499"},"modified":"2016-02-22T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T02:53:20","slug":"the-economics-of-presidential-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-presidential-campaigns\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Presidential Campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102612_0321_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eamon Javers highlighted some of the numbers from the Presidential Campaign so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The two candidates are spending $26.86 a second to get people&#8217;s votes.<\/li>\n<li>This means that about $10.14 is being spent on each registered voter in the United States. And that&#8217;s not including the money that will be spent in the crucial month of October.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast, in 1980, Reagan and Carter spent just $5 (inflation adjusted, 2012 dollars) per registered voter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more fascinating numbers from the campaign so far over <a href=\"http:\/\/bottomline.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/10\/25\/14696130-your-vote-is-worth-five-bucks-give-or-take-this-election\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bottomline.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/10\/25\/14696130-your-vote-is-worth-five-bucks-give-or-take-this-election\">NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eamon Javers highlighted some of the numbers from the Presidential Campaign so far: The two candidates are spending $26.86 a second to get people&#8217;s votes. This means that about $10.14 is being spent on each registered voter in the United States. And that&#8217;s not including the money that will be spent in the crucial month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-6499","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\/2012\/10\/102612_0321_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499","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=6499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6509,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6499\/revisions\/6509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}