The cost of the 2012 election will top a record $6 billion, according to the . If you find it difficult to visualize that figure, here are a few other ways to think about what $6 billion could buy:
-- 30 million
;
-- 3,000
;
-- 200
;
-- 981
;
-- 15,503
;
-- 451
;
-- 545,454 1-carat
;
-- 18 million
;
-- 1 year of lunches for
;
-- 4
(the world's tallest building).
And one more way to look at it: $6 billion could pay off less than 1 percent (0.67 percent, actually) of the projected .
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