[2ndDivisionVet]

Link to article: http://www.kens5.com/story/news/2016/02/23/ted-cruz-marco-rubio-super-tuesday-states-fundraising/80802330/

[ripnbang]

Jeb raised a lot of money.

[bigbob]

Good, after tonight Rubio will have not end of money coming from the RNC and former Jeb! donors, so he and Cruz can beat each other silly spending other people’s money to see who can win second place by a point or two. Meanwhile Trump will run the table and put this thing away.

[euram]

Come Super Tuesday, a week from now, how much money Rubio or Cruz have or doesn’t have won’t make a difference, because Trump is going to win most, if not all of the contests. After Trump wins big on Super Tuesday, Rubio may very well have to drop out having not won a single contest. Cruz may also have to drop out, because he will probably only eek out a very slim victory in his home state, and who is going to keep donating to and voting for the guy who gives great 3rd place finisher speeches?

[Mariner]

Hard money is how you pay for staff and ground game. Everybody needs it.

But the big pac money will now line up with Rubio and he'll have enough hard money to continue.

It will be an interesting debate on Thursday. Both Rubio and Cruz needs to eliminate the other.

And figure out a way to win a state.

[cynwoody]

The 'Rats, especially Bernie Sanders, would have you believe that money matters in politics (it's wrong, it's unfair, we must repeal the 1st Amendment, yada yada). But the numbers, at least for SC GOP primary, show a strong negative correlation between money spent and votes got:

Candidate	Total Spending	Total Votes	Cost Per Vote
Jeb Bush	$13.78 million	57,863	$238.15
Marco Rubio	$12.05 million	165,881	$72.64
Ted Cruz	$7.07 million	164,790	$42.90
Ben Carson	$1.06 million	53,326	$19.88
John Kasich	$882,000	56,206	$15.69
Donald Trump	$1.78 million	239,851	$7.42
Total	$36.622 million	737,917	$49.63