> if you had a million dollars, whats the best way to spend it to make your candidate win? (within the law) what type of candidate? for a presidential race one million dollars is nothing and is a rounding error on the amount spent. senate? as long as its not in a swing state it should get you a couple rounds of state advertising, but cant change any fundamental weaknesses or guarantee anything. house? probably a split between staffing and local advertising, would be a significant amount of your non-committee funds and make your race comfortable as long as you aren't facing an incumbent lower offices like mayor, city council, county supervisor? as long as its not a major metro area, you'll easily outspend your opponent by a 10:1 factor minimum and would very likely win.
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