Posted on 01/06/2015 6:46:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The next two years are a good time to be a local candidate or party organization in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The political action committees supporting Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton have already started doling out cash to the campaigns of potential supporters in the states with the earliest presidential contests of 2016.
Leadership PACs — like the one Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, will be forming soon — provide a natural vehicle for sending campaign money to state and local candidates and committees in key early presidential states.
Several potential presidential candidates, through their PACs or the committees created to lay the groundwork for them, spent tens of thousands of dollars in the two early states to help candidates in the midterm elections in November. Those efforts will only intensify this year, as attention turns toward building support for 2016.
Mr. Paul, the Kentucky Republican senator who is up for re-election next year, has not let his PAC’s interest in New Hampshire and Iowa wane....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Hmmm....Who won Iowa last time? Rick Santorum, with almost no money and a lot of shoe leather. Money is important, but in a caucus state like Iowa, values can play a big role, too. One shouldn’t count one’s chickens too soon.
Ted will have people in all 99 counties. Jebbie? Probably not. I’ve worked on presidential campaigns in Iowa.
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