With the Maine Clean Elections act and contribution limits on privately financed legislative campaigns, the most interesting place to look at legislative race spending is at the independent expenditure reports, filed with the Maine Ethics Commission.
The Maine Democratic and Republican parties, and campaign committees for the Senate Republicans and Democrats, are the biggest third party spenders. They have the following grand totals of campaign contributions as of Sunday evening:
Outside groups are kicking in as well. These organizations have kicked in the following grand totals this fall:
Click here for a list of state Senate races that are benefitting the most from these groups, and here for a list of state House races.
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