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Campaigns and advocacy groups may spend up to $17 billion on ads in 2024. Many pitches will focus on the local and the personal.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders plans to speak at Walmart’s annual meeting.

What can we expect in 2020?

The election's a day away, so why are Clinton and Trump still hitting up supporters for cash?

Wall Street has spent $1.4 billion on donations and lobbying this election, more than twice the contributions by any other industry, according to a new study by Americans for Financial reform. That works out to $2.3 million per day from January 2015 to September 2016. And it wasn’t banks that led the effort, despite the […]

But political spending on air time isn't nearly what stations expected.

Campaigns sent their latest numbers to the Federal Election Commission Sunday.