Sentence examples for races spending from inspiring English sources

In New Jersey Legislative races, spending more than a few hundred thousand dollars on one campaign is considered expensive.

The group has focused on a handful of races, spending $1.5 million in seven competitive House seats in the last six weeks, leaving the Democratic candidates under fire at all hours of the day on television.

It was a relatively stress-free, anonymous life that principally entailed attending races, spending his father's millions at horse auctions and studying bloodlines to find suitable stallions to mate with the Steinbrenner mares.

Republicans praised the work of the party chairman for the county, Joseph N. Mondello, who stanched the losses of last year and invested in the State Senate and Hempstead races, spending about $2 million on the Town Board races, in a special election after redistricting.

In all, 357 candidates in legislative races spent a total of $47 million.

In 1998, all the candidates in all 34 Senate races spent $3.4 million on polling, according to the Campaign Study Group.

They ask that the outsiders run their races, spend their money, leave the state and leave them happily lonesome.

Mr. Perry and Mr. White, who ran expensive statewide races, spent the most but were also fishing in the biggest pool of voters.

More than 50 candidates in 2008 races spent over a half-million dollars on their campaigns... out of their own pockets.

The Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign spending over election cycles, found that in 2008, winners of Senate races spent an average of $8,531,267 on their campaigns, while losers spent less than half this amount, $4,130,078.

In California, for example, a San Francisco-based group called America Shining has focused on one race, spending $150,000 to help Jay Chen, a Democrat, in a Republican-dominated disoutht softh of Los Angeles.