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The Wealth Primary: Spending in the 2000 New York State Legislative Elections reports on spending by all major party candidates for the New York State Legislature in the 2000 elections. The report finds that winners spent more than three times as much as losers and incumbents spent more than three times as much as challengers. In landslide elections, the winner has a landslide spending advantage over the loser – winners spent 25 times more than losers. The majority political party in each house of the legislature has a big spending advantage, with Republicans spending 2.5 times as much as Democrats in the Senate and Democrats spending 2 times as much as Republicans in the Assembly.