Posted on 02/10/2016 9:11:02 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Donald Trump's massive and massively consequential New Hampshire victory cost the billionaire businessman a mere $40 per vote, according to a study done by Morning Consult. To come in a distant fourth place, Jeb Bush spent a mind-boggling $1200 per vote.
Sen. Ted Cruz did the best; he landed in a surprising third place by spending only $18 per vote.
No one, though, wasted their money more than Sen. Marco Rubio, who spend $508 per vote to belly-flop into fifth place. Even though Bush spent more than twice as much as Rubio, the former Florida governor at least walks out of the Granite State with a live-to-fight-another-day narrative at his back.
Rubio exits New Hampshire something close to toast.
Moreover, Rubio exits New Hampshire exposed. According to America's oh-so brilliant Thought Leaders, Rubio The Republican Savior wasn't supposed to need to spend $508 per vote. With his Fox News super PAC and grassroots appeal, Rubio was supposed to be the shining conservative in the race, not the guy gutting it out in the Establishment Lane.
We have a long, long way to go in this primary season, but right now this is a Trump-Cruz race - the GOP Establishment's worst nightmare - and Revolution is in the air.
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And some idiots say Cruz is the Wall Street candidate.
You would think Wall Street would pay better.
Except Trump spends his own money, Cruz spends donors’-—whom he owes, big.
It seems these totals are all over the place.
I’ve seen and heard probably 8 different accounts and every single one has different numbers
Doesn’t take away from the fact that jeb has blown $50 million so far in two states and only got a T-shirt
Never thought I would say this.
Thank you John Kaisch for jamming up the Establishment Fast lane with your clown car campaign.
LOL!!!
I love hop blatantly myopic some of this analysis is. In Iowa Trump spent 10% of Cruz for one less delegate. In other words, Cruz spent 3 million more than Trump and got one delegate more than Trump.
There is no doubt about who is the most efficient when it comes to votes per $ spent. It’s NOT Cruz.
I used, filthy t-shirt that says I’m with stupid with an arrow pointing up.
Excellent
A micro case study on the economic efficiencies of how politicians got us where we are with the national spending wreck.
“Except Trump spends his own money, Cruz spends donors’-—whom he owes, big.”
Perhaps you could prove that. Show how Cruz’s calls to crack down on the Fed help Goldman Sachs. Show how his position on ethanol helped him in Iowa. Please show how his many one-man stands in the Senate against the Washington Cartel (his words) have enriched him or endeared Cruz to lobbyists.
I just get tired of hearing talking points regurgitated verbatim without any backup.
The only “backup” you need is common sense. Rush says it all the time: when people give you money, they expect something in return. I’ve been in DC enough to see this in action.
I wrote Harry Reid’s biography, still working on getting him indicted, so I know corruption. But I notice you evaded the direct question, to show me an instance where lobbyists have benefited from a Cruz stance.
I can show you how Trump benefited by pandering to the ethanol lobby.
“Except Trump spends his own money, Cruz spends donors’-—whom he owes, big.”
Precisely.
Hoooahhhhh!!!!
Blood in the waters.
May the richest man win!
You can always count on a certain percentage of the electorate to chase the superstar no matter where they go or what they say.
In 08 Duncan Hunter ran on virtually the same issues Trump is mouthing today and Hunter actually had a record and even got some border security built. Unfortunately that was the year of the maybe I will and maybe I won’t Fred Thompson campaign and he was “the one”.
Cultural degeneracy always wins......for a while.
I don’t dodge. It’s just common sense. He who pays the piper calls the tune. I hope you found a publisher.
Let us face it; the data here cries out how much better both Trump & Cruz are, in representing what Primary voters desire, in comparison to all the other candidates.
In November we are all going to have to work together. It would really be advisable, if in supporting one or the other of the two, we did not snipe at the other. They represent two types--both Conservative; both pro traditional America--but giving voice to factions that approach politics somewhat differently. In short, they complement each other.
I do not want to sound sanctimonious. I am all for lusty campaign rhetoric; but the future--any future worth having--requires that we do not turn different approaches into irreconcilable conflict among those basically seeking an acceptable future.
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