HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY TO BE IN THE U.S. HOUSE?

Remember Katherine Harris' pledge that she would spend millions in her own personal fortune and that left her from her wealthy banker father when he passed away? She's done some, but nowhere near the $10 million she had promised for her run for the U.S. Senate.

Vern Buchanan has millions of his own to spend. The Sarasota-area auto dealer is worth at least $50 million, according to financial reports filed with the U.S. House Clerk's office. Buchanan just recently added another $850,000 of his own money to his campaign war chest, according to the Sarasota Herald Tribune's Political Insider blog. That would make $4.5 million of Buchanan's personal wealth that has been put into the effort to be elected.

Is it doing any good? In one of the most negative campaigns in Central Florida, it's fairly close, but Buchanan is behind. Even his own polling shows him down by three percentage points against Democratic challenger Christine Jennings...within most margins of error, but down.

Apparantly the Republican is unaware or didn't pay attention to recent history. The most a candidate has put of his/her own funds into their campaign in a run for Congress in Florida was four years ago, when Democrat Wayne Hogan spent $4.5 million to challenge GOP incumbant John Mica...he lost, too.