Posted on 07/30/2016 7:37:06 PM PDT by kevcol
The most "inefficient" candidate? Why, Lindsey Graham, of course. I know, I know. Did ANYONE vote for Lindsey Graham? Well, 5,623 souls to be exact, or enough to fill up a Columbia 1-AA football stadium. Since Graham paid a total of $5,700,248 for all those votes, or $1,013.74 per vote, he wins the prize for electoral waste.
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In fairness to Graham and others who exited the race early, generally those who invested a ton of money in the early primaries only to fail and drop out were by far the least efficient candidates. For example, Jeb Bush spent more than $35 million for 279,477 votes, or $126.70 per vote.
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Trump knows how to manage money....no good money after bad
“For example, Jeb Bush spent more than $35 million for 279,477 votes, or $126.70 per vote.”
Amazingly bad.
But portends well for the general.
Doesn’t count PAC money I guess. Jeb spent a lot more than that if you include his PACs.
Not to feed a stereotype, but Trump is half Scot, and Scots are known for being cheap. Glad Trump is half Scot. He will be a frugal leader of our Country. That combined with his other half, that being German, known for being good businessmen (which Trump definitely is) is a great combination. Frugal man with great business acumen.
But, all money not spent belongs to the candidate. Nice, huh?
“But, all money not spent belongs to the candidate. Nice, huh?”
Not true. The law was changed in the mid 1980s to prevent candidate from keeping the money personally. Most will flip any leftover campaign funds to a PAC where they donate to other candidates in other races.
The funds can't be used for personal living, such a buying a new house, etc.
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That’s true. Campaign money has to be spent on campaigns or charity. But Clinton’s use the money to pay off friends. Many of their past employees now have board seats or are outright employees of the foundation. And many times they are hired as lawyers for the foundation which stops them from answering questions under oath about the Clintons. Its really an art form of using charity money for political gain.
Selected Trump articles on FR, from 3:45 PM to 11:59 PM EDT, 7/30/16:
Nielson Media Research final numbers on ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: TRUMP 32.2 MILLION. CLINTON 27.8 MILLION –DJT twitter
Limbaugh: ‘Clinton Cash’—‘No Reality’ to Clintons’ Message –Breitbart
Going Viral: 'Clinton Cash' Movie Version –WND
Why didn’t the Democrats even mention the Clinton Foundation? –NYPost
Final primary spending numbers are in; who's more embarrassed than Lindsey Graham? –BizPac
Despite Historic Nomination, Dems Freaking that Trump Will Beat Hillary –Townhall
Why ‘white trash’ Americans are flocking to Donald Trump –NYPost
Megyn Kelly Meltdown over Trump Muslim Ban—IRebuked by Huckabee –Breitbart
Trump Still Leads in Daily Tracking Poll (FReep a poll)People’sPundit
RAW: 9NEWS full interview with Donald Trump [Colorado] (video)
Clinton promises to heal America, but Trump sets the agenda –UK:Telegraph
Cornyn denounces Cruz's 'mistake' of not endorsing Trump –DallasNews
Clinton VP pick Kaine: Promoting jihadis in America… for cash –AmerThnkr
Low Turnout Expected for Aug. 9 Primary (16% expected in Ryan/Nehlen Primary-Good News for Us!) –KenoshaNews
Electoral Map Gives Donald Trump Few Places to Go –NYT
Twitter posting re Trump and Koch Bros –DJT twitter
Koch brothers network rules out anti-Clinton ads –WMTW
Feinstein: Hillary Hasn’t Had News Conferences because Questions Are Always about Emails and Benghazi –Breitbart
The laws on foundations have to change. People like the Clintons have used those laws to appear like they are doing good when they do a little good but a lot bad.
Think back to a few years ago when there was a brouhaha about the Komen Foundation deciding to suspend its support of Planned Parenthood. PP basically blackmailed Komen to continue to fund them. When you or I donate to Komen (I’ve long since stopped) we don’t think our donations are going to PP. But it’s pretty much a money laundering system. Just one left wing foundation donating to another, back and forth, ad nauseum.
True. Trump’s good with money - something DC needs...
That's one of the reasons Trump burns their ass so much. He spent almost nothing during the primary season. I'm sure he'll step it up a bit, but I don't expect it to be anywhere near the level of what Hillary and her flying monkeys will be dumping into the 'system'.
Heh. And Hillary talks about overturning Citizens United when she is the biggest beneficiary of same.
For the record, I’m sick of the ridiculous dizzying sums of money it takes to run. I’m really not sure but Citizens united doesn’t appeal to me...though no candidate will ever have to worry about me exceeding any contribution level.. ;-)
Thanks, I didn’t know that. I read somewhere how Charlie Range became wealthy by not campaigning and keeping money donated.
Charlie Rangel was in Congress from 1972 forward. He had a number of years to use campaign funds for his personal uses. The districts he has represented (he’s represented several over time, as boundaries changed) would vote him in if he served from prison, so once in office all following elections fundraising till the law was adopted barring those expenditures, the $$$ was purely for Charlie. You can bet on that.
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