Posted on 02/02/2016 9:22:33 AM PST by jimbo123
Has $14.9 million ever bought less? As Jeb Bush's dispiriting campaign for president limped to an all too predictable wet thud of a finish in Iowa last night, his supporters played down the ramifications. New Hampshire matters much more, they say. Iowa's strictly conservative base was never a great fit for the mainline governor, they argue.
All fair points. But it's also true that Jeb's super PAC bombed Iowa airwaves with almost $15 million worth of ads and got almost nothing in return.
In fact, if you crunch the final vote tally estimates and the final spending figures from NBC, Bush's war chest ended up splurging $2,888 for every single vote in Iowa.
That's bad. That's very, very bad. In fact, Jeb's spending was the highest of any GOP candidate in Iowa (with Rubio second at $11.4 million). And the final tallies rolling into Des Moines found the governor with only 5,235 votes - less than a third of what fellow Florida Man Ben Carson scored and far behind surprising fourth-place finisher Rand Paul's 8,478-vote showing.
Bush has spent the morning trying to shift expectations and playing off Iowa as a lost cause from the get-go. "The Jeb 2016 campaign has never made Iowa a centerpiece to winning the nomination," his campaign wrote in a memo.
But then why pump nearly $15 million into trying to sway votes in the state? Bush has been savaged in the press this morning, with Politico calling his performance "even worse than expected."
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If the Dauphin gave me $3000 I would vote for him.
We are pure purple here and Jeb couldn't find a vote anywhere!
Romney did much the same...
Fold it up Jeb. Send the rest of the money back to the puppet masters and go see mama.
Well, at least it is a one-time payment of more than the $2500 per year ObaMaoCare was supposed to save you, eh?
I wouldn’t vote for Jeb Bush for any amount of money. My country is at stake.
Bad planning. Just imagine how many folks would’ve sold their vote for $3,000. (sarcasm, of course)
’ New Hampshire matters much more, they say. ‘
In other words theyre in the denial phase still.
He would have been better off bribing people to vote for him.
Lessee...you win the popular vote in the United States with about 65 million votes. That’s $195 billion. Those big donors are just gonna have to pony up a little more, that’s all.
Why is any jebby complaining? Since we are being told that Iowa only picks losers (eg, NH picks winners, IA picks corn), he is now in great shape! He’d be REALLY hurting now if he had won IA.
“Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.” Joe Kennedy, in the 1960 victory of JFK
Jeb certainly did not buy a landslide.
Just a new starting point for base line budgeting....................
Or the people who count the votes.............
Bush is not crushed so long as the RNC keeps him officially running.
I would vote for his turtle before I’d vote for Bush.
The Rove-Priebus brokered convention fix is still in for Jeb.
So, in the very first REAL results in this race, who did the democrats show up to vote for at the GOP caucuses?
That will tell you who they most want to run against.
I am betting Rubio
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