The High Costs of Losing, and Sometimes Winning

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Candidates Like Santorum May Have Hefty Bills For Years

Four years after running for president, Hillary Clinton has yet to close out her campaign; the secretary of state, a Democrat, owes $245,000 to a consultant, FEC records show.

Same for Senator John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, whose campaign has leftover funds he still has to disburse. Former New York Mayor and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani owes various people a total of $2.6 million. And former Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, a onetime North Carolina senator, has unpaid bills of $333,586.

Former President Bill Clinton won re-election in 1996. The FEC hasn’t closed the book on his campaign either -- he’s disputing $319,630 in debts.