Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1964
University Daily Kansan
Page 9
Election Expenses Shoot Skyward
WASHINGTON — (UPI) The Republican party is spending more for each half hour of network television time it buys this year than it spent to elect the first Republican President in 1860.
The late President John F. Kennedy's commission on campaign costs put the combined figure at $19.9 million for 1960, $12.9 million for 1956 and $11.6 million for 1952.
But Abraham Lincoln spent the 1860 campaign in Springfield, Ill., and made no speeches. His campaign cost was an estimated $100,000 compared with $125,000 or more for a half hour network television program in 1864.
Sen, Barry Goldwater, the 1964 GOP nominee, is traveling by jet plane to make speeches in about 40 states, visiting some of them more than once. He also is the star performer in most of the television programs the GOP has scheduled this year.
CAMPAIGN COSTS keep going up like a mountain climber. The two major parties expect to spend a combined total of about $22 million on their national campaigns this year.
Actually these figures represent only a small fraction of political spending. They merely cover Republican and Democratic committees operating in more than one state.
NEITHER THE Democrats nor Republicans have announced a hard presidential campaign budget figure for this year. The Democrats expect to spend between $10 million and $12 million and the Republicans plan to spend more than $11 million.
For 1960, the White House commission estimated that all spending for national, state and local offices amounted to between $160 million and $175 million.
The Democrats already have raised about $7 million. No comparable figure was available from the GOP.
The one and only wild and screaming CHUCK BERRY is coming. Friday, Oct. 16
What Do You Think?
- Is desegregating our fraternities like fighting city hall?
- Is our university capable of being completely desegregated?
- Will the demonstrations during the homecoming half-time be necessary to reach a solution?
- Do fraternities at KU have different policies from those at the University of Mississippi?
- Will the homecoming of 1964 be a peaceful one? It will be one to remember.
ARE YOU INTERESTED?
CIVIL RIGHTS COUNCIL MEETING
7:30 Wednesday, October 7 Cottonwood Room
The fund-raising dinner is still a favored way to collect money. And it is going up too. The price used to be $100 a plate. Now it is often $1,000.
As the party devoted to "fiscal responsibility" in government, the Republicans hope to run their campaign with that policy. They want to emerge from the campaign free of debt. How to achieve this is something else again.
WHEN THE Goldwater team took over the GOP it raised all state quotas because those previously in effect would have left a post-campaign debt of $1.5 million.
The 1960 campaign left the Republican in debt by about $700,000 and the Democrats by almost $4 million.
For both parties, the cost of television is the biggest budget item. The Democrats have earmarked $4.2 million for radio and television and the Republicans $4.7 million.
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