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Super PACs have led the charge, breaking the half-a-billion dollar mark in spending and making up about 80 percent of total outside spending for the 2016 election. The nearly $530 million is almost three times the amount spent by super PACs in the 2012 election by the end of August.

New Yorkers poured more cash into presidential politics last year than residents of any other American metro area. With nearly $66 million donated to Republican and Democratic candidates’ campaigns and the outside groups like super PACs backing them, the city was the candidates’ top source of both direct campaign contributions and super PAC funds.

Spending by political organizations working to influence the 2016 elections outside the party or official campaign structure registers a five-fold increase by this date in the last presidential cycle.

A Washington DC-based nonpartisan non-profit research group's blog picks the big legal developments of 2014 in terms of political cash-counting.

The 2014 election cycle will cost at least $3.67 billion, or slightly more than the 2010 election, which cost $3.63 billion