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What Can You Buy With $3.6 Billion -- iPads

By Lindsey Boerma

Updated: May 30, 2013 | 1:02 a.m.
October 26, 2010 | 8:36 p.m.

What's this campaign worth to you? National Journal looks at 12 other ways you could have spent the $3.6 billion that's been spent on Senate and House races so far. Below: #11.

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11. 7.2 Million iPads:

The lowest-end iPad offering 16 GB and Wi-Fi runs at Apple.com for $499, which means that $3.6 million would afford the product to 7,200,000 people.

See what else you could buy for $3.6 billion: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12

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