So what does the Romney campaign subscribe to?

According to data filed with the Federal Election Commission updated to May 9, “online subscriptions” make up $57,010.53 of the $105 million the campaign has spent so far.

The single largest expenditure in this category is $5,000 to “The Examiner,” based in Alexandria (presumably the Washington Examiner and its affiliates). However, twelve separate payments to Lexis-Nexis combine to make a total of $21,750 in payments to that news-archive service.

Most of the expenses are with newspapers in key states — presumably a campaign never knows when it might need to look into the archives to see what a primary rival or the president said to those newspapers in the not-so-recent past.

It’s interesting to see subscriptions to some of talk radio’s prominent names here – Laura Ingraham, Bill Bennett . . . but . . . somebody on the campaign paid $34.75 to access the online archives of People magazine?

Among the subscriptions:

  • The Associated Press: $950.
  • The Appleton Post Crescent: $30.
  • The Baltimore Sun: $166.08.
  • Bill Bennett Online: $6.95.
  • The Boston Globe: $96.75.
  • The Boston Herald: $51.
  • The Burlington Free Press: $35.
  • The Casper Star-Tribune: $50.
  • The Charlotte Observer: $30.
  • The Cleveland Plain Dealer: $120.
  • The Columbus Dispatch: $45.
  • The Dallas Morning News: $279.39.
  • The Des Moines Register: $28.
  • The Detroit Free Press: $156.
  • Dow Jones & Co.: $103.
  • The Economist: $120.
  • The Green Bay Press Gazette: $40.
  • The Honolulu Star Advertiser: $14.65.
  • The Idaho Statesman: $17.50.
  • The Idaho Falls Post Register Circular: $6.
  • LauraIngraham.com: $29.75.
  • The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: $50.
  • The Union Leader in New Hampshire: $199.71.
  • The Oakland (MI) Press: $32.50.
  • The Oklahoman: $14.
  • People magazine: $34.75.
  • The Providence Journal: $16.
  • The Quad-City Times: $28.
  • Rasmussen Reports: $27.65.
  • The St. Petersburg Times: $35.
  • Time magazine: $90.
  • The Twin Falls (ID) Times News: $30.
  • The Washington Times: $100.
  • The Waterbury Republican-American: $6.25.