The price tag for the Senate contest is expected to easily exceed $10 million.

The race, which cost $20 million, was one of the most expensive Senate contests in the country.

The race, the most expensive Senate contest in the nation, had been neck-and-neck for months.

The presidential race is also a potential factor in the Senate contest.

We have a Senate contest this year, and nobody cares.

As a consequence, the Senate contests included some of the most expensive and bitter ones ever.

And there was a national theme to the Senate contests to a degree rarely seen in other years.

Every public opinion poll indicated that all he had to do was jump into the Senate contest.

The race is one of the nation's most prominent Senate contests.

The race is one of about 10 Senate contests judged too close to call.