Year 1990
2000
2010
Average Spent on Election Campaigns
US Senate
Winner
Loser
$ 3,870,621
$ 1,674,658
S7,266,576
S3,864,638
$ 9,782,702
56 528,077
1) How much did the average winner of a US Senate Election spend on their
Campaign in 1990 in 2000? in 2010?
1990 - 53,870,621
2000 - 57,266,575
2010 59,782,702
2) How much more money was spent by the average winning campaign for
Senate than the average losing campaign for Senate in 2000? $3,401,936
3) Since 1990, how much has the average spent by the winning US Senate
campaign increased? 55,912,081
4) The chart shows several trends patternsjin the average cost of campaigns
for the Senate. What trends do you see?