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good evening, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, big, big, big politics. according to the federal election commission. that would make it the most expensive election season in american history. but here s the dirty truth about american history. money always seeps into politics, and it has been going and going and going for a long time. take president mckinley s campaign at the turn of the century. even know that guy? railroad and steel barron s gave him kingly sums of $6 million for his 1896-1900 win. that would be a lot of money now. president nixon was given $2.5 million by one guy, an insurance executive when he ran for president in 68 and 72. just two examples of what happens every time. over the years laws on campaign financing has tightened. but yet this is the strange thing. maybe it harder, you can t give here, but then it goes here and more money gets spent every single time. even with the mccain bill that was passed in 2002 which required limits in tw
election commission. that would make it the most expensive election season in american history. but here s the dirty truth about american history. money always seeps into politics, and it has been going and going and going for a long time. take president mckinley s campaign at the turn of the century. even know that guy? railroad and steel barron s gave him the then insanely kingly sums of $6 million for his 1896-1900 presidential win. that would be a lot of money even now. president nixon was given $2.5 million by one guy, an insurance executive when he ran for president in 68 and 72. just two examples of what happens every time. over the years laws on campaign financing has tightened. but yet this is the strange thing. make it harder and you say you can t give money here and then it goes there, and more money gets spent every single time. even with the mccain bill that was passed in 2002 which required limits in two candidate, guess what, a lot of cash has found its way i
outfront tonight, big, big, and bigger money in politics. upwards of $11 million will be spent on this year s election, according to the federal election commission. that would make it the most expensive election season in american history. but here s the dirty truth about american history. money always seeps into politics, and it has been going and going and going for a long time. take president mckinley s campaign at the turn of the century. even know that guy? railroad and steel barron s gave him the then insanely kingly sums of $6 million for his 18 - 1896-1900 presidential win. that would be a lot of money even now. president nixon was given $2.5 million by one guy, an insurance executive when he ran for president in 68 and 72. just two examples of what happens every time. over the years laws on campaign financing has tightened. but yet this is the strange thing. make it harder and you say you can t give money here and then it goes there, and more money gets spent ev
us, the presentations that will happen at cpac, nice to have you joining us. first and foremost this is the all star event, rick santorum will make a presentation, mitt romney will make a presentation, newt gingrich will be here making presentation, michele bachmann, sarah palin will wrap-up the entire night. what does it tell you about sort of the role of conservatives in this year s election? well, obviously, this has become an election that in my opinion will be decided by turnout, and whoever gets their base more passionately involved and out there to vote will win this election. the country divided 50-50 now, in terms of philosophical terms, conservatives are the base of the movement and the right, and progressives are the base of the other side and whoever thinks it s more at stake will get more enthusiastic will allow that candidate to win the election. when you look at statistics on turnout, ron and i talked about this yesterday, doesn t that bode badly for you, t