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Table 4: Break-down of the 527s’ expenditures
Cycle Total Administr Campaign Polling/ Campaign Me Fundr Contr Others
ative expenses Surveys Direct dia aising ibutio
expenses /Research Mail ns
ALL THREE $ 435,800,415 0.17 0.13 0.02 0.02 0.05 0.10 0.45 0.10
Cycles:
2004 $ 123,281,258 0.14 0.11 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.15 0.56 0.02
2006 $ 174,974,695 0.16 0.12 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.12 0.38 0.18
2008 $ 137,544,462 0.21 0.16 0.03 0.03 0.10 0.03 0.45 0.05
Affiliation:
$ 76,763,951
Independent 0.21 0.14 0.03 0.06 0.09 0.23 0.23 0.10
($ 2,398,873)
$ 277,155,501
Party 0.20 0.15 0.02 0.01 0.05 0.08 0.44 0.08
($ 17,322,219)
$ 81,880,963
Union 0.01 0.07 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.03 0.73 0.15
($ 6,823,414)
Ideology:
$ 168,278,564
Conservative 0.21 0.16 0.04 0.02 0.07 0.16 0.39 0.00
($ 12,019,897)
$ 246,821,480
Liberal 0.14 0.10 0.01 0.00 0.01 0.06 0.52 0.16
($ 6,495,302)
$ 20,700,371
Unknown 0.15 0.24 0.06 0.14 0.27 0.02 0.23 0.09
($ 2,443,596)
Frequency:
$ 49,358,082
One-shot 0.15 0.14 0.02 0.05 0.13 0.35 0.19 0.05
($ 1,828,077)
$ 379,939,025
Three-cycle 0.17 0.13 0.02 0.01 0.04 0.07 0.49 0.10
($11,710,374)
Note: Numbers in parentheses are the averages.
Source: Center for Responsive Politics and authors’ calculations.

Table 5: Campaign Direct Mailing Expenditures, and Contributions to
Political Parties
Group Campaign Media Contributions to Political
Direct Mailing Parties or Candidates
Type: Independent $ 138,495 $ 209,444 $ 544,207
(11.27) (502.67) (0.11)
Frequency: One-shot $ 234,966 $ 234,966 $ 348,269
(19.1) (563.9) (0.07)

Ideology: Unknown $ 363,650 $ 693,866 $ 584,956
(29.6) (1665.3) (0.12)
Note: Numbers in parentheses are the ratios compared to union affiliated groups’
average spending.

Source: Center for Responsive Politics and authors’ calculations.

Manuscript received: 24 August 2012

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