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