Campaign spending

Spending on gubernatorial races is higher than on Senate contests.

Consultants create super PACs to raise money and use that money to pay themselves.

The conservative Koch brothers are targeting vulnerable Congressional Democrats who supported the ACA.

With U.S. Sen. John Kerry on the short list to become Secretary of State, Massachusetts could be in line for its third U.S. Senate election in just more than two years. It's meant big bucks spent in advertising.

It has been two weeks since the election, and the big number we're going to focus on is: $6 billion. That's how much money was spent on the 2012 campaign... And a lot of that money came from big donors.

The price of this year's campaign spending is what Americans spend every year renting DVDs.

Federal law has kept money raised for the general election off limits until Mitt Romney and Barack Obama become official nominees.