How much money does it take to run for a house seat

A lot!

According to Map light, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization that tracks money in politics, House candidates who won in 2012 raked in an average of $1,689,580 in campaign contributions. That's about $2,315 each day.

Those numbers climb substantially if you're running for Senate. Candidates who won a seat in Congress' upper chamber each raised an average of $10,476,451. That's $14,351 per day.

Of course, not all seats are created equally.

It takess up to 5 senators