The cost of the 2012 election will top a record $6 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics . 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
iPhone 5s
;
-- 3,000
New York City subway cars
;
-- 200
F-15 fighter jets
;
-- 981
public elementary schools
;
-- 15,503
Lamborghini Aventadors
;
-- 451
small hospitals
;
-- 545,454 1-carat
Tiffany diamond engagement rings
;
-- 18 million
iPad minis
;
-- 1 year of lunches for
11 million public school students
;
-- 4
Burj Khalifa skyscrapers
(the world's tallest building).
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