Posted on 10/27/2015 4:42:02 AM PDT by jimbo123
Jeb Bush is being outspent in the crucial early presidential caucus and primary states, while Donald Trump has quietly been building a competitive, ground-level campaign operation.
With the first Iowa caucus votes less than 100 days away, the Globe examined what Republican campaigns are doing to build the on-the-ground networks required to get supporters to the polls during the cold of winter. The review analyzed state-by-state spending since each of the candidates jumped into the race.
It shows that Bush has spent less money in the first four states — Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada — than some of his top Republican rivals, according to a Globe analysis of campaign data submitted to the Federal Election Commission.
Bush’s campaign says the FEC disclosures distort the true picture, because staffers hard at work in New Hampshire — where he is now focusing — are paid through a common Florida address, and their help on the campaign is not reflected in state-by-state expenditures. Still, even with those salaries factored in, Bush does not have the sort of staffing advantage heading into the heat of the campaign that he once boasted he could build.
Meanwhile, Trump has spent nearly $1 million in the early states, eclipsing all of his rivals, particularly in New Hampshire, where he just opened two more campaign offices.
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I thought it was because all the money in the world can not get people to like him
He’s doesn’t have all of the money in the world any more. His donors cut him off.
If Trump supporters are showing up in the thousands to hear him speak, they will brave the winter to show up and vote.
how can he be out of money?
his super pac is said to still have $100m
His superpac isn’t spending money on a ground game.
His superpac is spending its money on ineffective advertising on media that kicks back a 15% commission to be pocketed by superpac cronies.
Jeb has only 30,000 supporters. The wealthy he considers his constituents, his donors. His level of disdain for conservatives and what they want is appalling.
Thus, he is running an idiotic campaign.
First among his inanities is shooting off his mouth to offer his constituents, the Chamber of Commerce types, everything they want. Things that NOBODY else in the US wants.
This speaks volumes, and says that either he doesn’t know that the vast majority of Americans don’t want what he is selling, or worse, that he thinks it doesn’t matter, that he has (had) so much money that he could buy the presidency outright, without voters.
So, stupid or arrogant, neither makes him a good candidate.
What happened to that $100 million war chest from the spring????? Did Mike Murphy blow it all that fast?
“So, stupid or arrogant, neither makes him a good candidate.”
Someone somewhere is banking on a brokered convention and just handing it to the Yebetable.
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