Nonprofit Campaign Spending Down Overall in 2008

Feb. 25, 2009, CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWS — Overall spending by nonprofits was down considerably during the 2008 campaign, even though some groups tripled their expenditures to help take up the slack.

Propelled largely by business organizations and labor unions, nonprofits spent more than $400 million to influence voters in competitive races, according to an analysis by the Washington-based Campaign Finance Institute, which studies money in politics.