Great research. With all the money Romney has spent, about the only thing he’s gotten out of it is a bunch of pissed off
Gingrich and Santorum voters. The same voters he will HAVE to have if he has any chance of beating Zero.
Romney has gotten where he is now in this race thanks to money. Tons of it, relative to Gingrich and Santorum, but a drop in the bucket compared to what BHO will have available. Recently it’s been written that he has used up most of the funds already that he’d planned on using through (at least) the nomination and is now fundraising for donations from small donors.
Romney, if he gets the nomination, may ultimately win the votes of most Gingrich/Santorum voters, but he won’t get them out as on-the-ground volunteers that are vital to any campaign. I don’t see hordes of folks willing to walk door to door to speak with voters or for lit drops, or standing outside polls, encouraging voters to go R, or working the phones, and all the other low level work that is done. I can see are the young Mormon missionaries taking up the slack. But that’s not the same as people in your own neighborhood doing the volunteer work.
One has to wonder if Romney’s ‘celebrity’ backers, Ann, the Buchanans, the Macks, et al have ever volunteered their time to work a campaign, or do they think it’s all done by [paid] consultants?