media spending per caucus vote, all numbers in dollars.
Posted on 01/04/2012 11:06:55 AM PST by NYer
What can you buy for $130? A nice pair of headphones. A romantic dinner for two. Five hours of a typical worker's pre-tax salary. Or, if you're running for president, maybe you can buy a vote.
If you combine the Republican presidential candidates' total direct spending on media with SuperPAC outlays and other television ad buys from outside groups, you come out to about $15.6 million spent on TV ads in an Iowa caucus with about 120,000 total voters. That means the average price of a buying a vote via media came out about $130 dollars, according to data collected by Buzzfeed Politics.
But $130 would have been a bargain for Rick Perry. The Texas governor spent nearly $500 in media for every vote on Tuesday. If he received enough of the 120,000 votes to average $130 per vote, he would have easily won the Iowa caucus with with 46,000 votes, or 38 percent. Here is a graph of media spending per caucus vote, all numbers in dollars.
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Perry sure helped the Iowa economy - lol
From what I understand, Santorum paid .78 per vote.
Good grief.
Starve the media beast!
"I spent $6 million dollars in Iowa and all I got was this 5th Place Ribbon!"
Just look how Conservative Rick Santorum is. Beat Paul and embarrassed Mittens on a paltry $20 dollars a vote. Just imagine what he will do with the budgets in DC.
LOL!!!
If you really want to be the nominee the last thing you want to do is WIN Iowa!
Can we move on to the voting that matters now.
LOL. Now that there is funny.
I am betting it is still less than Obama sent (of our money) to his cronies at Solyndra.
Now you have it figured out. IA is first in nation for the PORK and millions spent during the campaigning...
That’s our Rick! Creating jobs and stimulating the economy wherever he goes.
That also show why Michelle couldn’t get traction.
Perry did not “spend” a cent. His supporters did. And they will keep on spending.
Porkulus II !
There a a few candidates who would disagree with you. This was a very interesting first test. Bachmann is out, Perry blew tons of his war chest for nothing, Paul pulled out all the stops with his Occupy supporters to do lousy, Mittens pulled out all the stops just to hit his 25% ceiling, the elitist GOP establishment Rove types tipped their hand to their crookedness in their vote shopping for Mittens, and the guy running the old style "out dated" shoe leather campaign won against all the punditries dismissals. A lot of theories were proved true or false last night. These early contests do matter.
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