Battleground States

This data represents the kind of spending that is involved in choosing our president. The importance of so called swing states in clenching the nomination can be clearly identified by just looking at this map and seeing the kind of spending the candidates are dishing out in TV ads, particularly in the state of Ohio where both candidates are spending the most money by very long stretch of the margin with respect to the other states. Hence the reason they coined the term “battleground state”.