Posted on 02/10/2016 9:39:09 AM PST by SmokingJoe
There's a reason Ted Cruz didn't spend a lot of money in New Hampshire. It wasn't because he had given up on him having an impact there even though most in the media had. It wasn't because he didn’t think that the vote was an important one. It was because he's smart enough to hold back when others are going all in. In essence, Ted Cruz let them burn through their cash while he looked at the long game. To place an unexpected third in New Hampshire, Ted Cruz and his super PACs combined to spend $580,000. This is less than Rand Paul or Lindsey Graham spent before dropping out. It’s less than Carly Fiorina spent on a state where she expected to get less than 5% of the vote. It’s even less than Donald Trump spent… much less. His $3.7 million on top of constant free media coverage meant that Trump was in every household multiple times in the week leading up to the primary.
John Kasich, the other candidate who beat Cruz by placing second, did so by spending over 20x as much. It was a strong night for Kasich who wasn’t a blip on the radar in Iowa, but it also cost him the rest of the campaign barring a miracle; it took $12.1 million to get him second in New Hampshire, leaving him with less than $3 million cash on hand. Unless he can turn this second place finish into an unprecedented fundraising run, his campaign won’t have enough cash to survive into March. Pundits will paint his finish as a strong play for him, but he really needed to finish 1st to justify using nearly 80% of his campaign funds to earn three delegates.
Meanwhile, Cruz has the most cash on hand and the second most super PAC money. As the other candidates proved in New Hampshire, cash isn’t everything. Jeb Bush, who finished fourth, spent $36.1 million. Marco Rubio outspent Cruz nearly 30:1 in New Hampshire to finish fifth. Chris Christie, who will likely drop out, spent even more than Rubio to finish sixt
Cruz is running a really smart campaign. He’s raising a lot of money and has a good ground game.
He’s smart enough to assess situations and use his money wisely.
Trump gets TONS of free press. Cruz gets almost no press.
But that may change in the next few weeks.
Who cares what the Establishment will do. They are irrelevant at this point.
Now wait just a minute! Trump says he is spending all his own money so where are the contributions coming from. Oh, contributors, right?
Let everyone just keep underestimating and sneering.
I think this election shows that money does make votes anymore the people do and Trump Cruz etal can spend money but they can’t buy votes! Look Cruz had to lie to the voters to eek out a win in NH!
I looked and you cut off part of the headline.
You forgot this: “The Five” - that would make it much more clear.
Hope you’re right. As the field thins, the individual candidates (except Trump who is a genius at grabbing headlines) emerge from the herd and start to come into focus. That will train more attention on Cruz by itself.
“Headlines fine. Awful to Trumpbots tho.”
Nice, never miss a chance to bash other posters here who dare to opine that either Cruz or Trump would be good.
A “That” after the first word in your headline would have lessened the requirement for your response to be such horseclinton.
How much did Cruz spend in Iowa per vote compared to Trump?
Rationalize losing much?
Why can’t you use English? I know Trump would use the term bitch slapped but what does it mean?
Right. Keep on’, believin’
Ted knows nothing about budgets or money, That would be Trump.
Beg to differ
February 9
New Hampshire Republican Presidential Primary Day
ARG
Trump 33, Rubio 14, Kasich 17, Cruz 10, Bush 9, Christie 8, Fiorina 3, Carson 1 Trump +16
Trump won NH. But claiming Cruz is owned by GS when Trump is into the Wall Street banks for somewhere between 250-500 million is kind of odd. Especially considering all the debtors he has stiffed in his life.
Trump didn’t spend much to buy votes. His most expensive items are Renting huge halls, his Jet plane. He just started spending on ads, and has no Pacs.
Cruz forgets to include the 1.2 million his pacs spent.
So per voter Cruz spent more than donald in Ads in the media. Per Voter
Well Trump certainly knows how to stiff banks, contractors and suppliers. I will give you that.
Oh, was Cruz in this race? I’ve only heard about Trump, Kasich and Jeb!
Did the others’ include that?
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