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Sports owners spent so much money on failed presidential candidates

Joe Biden never ran for president, but that didn't stop Peter Angelos. The Orioles' owner donated $272,000 to the vice president's 2016 campaign that never actually happened.

That looks like peanuts compared to what the Cubs-owning Ricketts family dropped, though. Think $5 million on Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor who dropped out of the race in September. Vocativ has a terrific visualization of how sports owners spend their money that breaks things down by team, and the No. 1 takeaway is, wow, these guys are not good at picking their horses.

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Here's our own breakdown, using Vocativ's numbers, of how each candidate fared in donations from sports owners:

Yes, that's right.