Posted on 02/10/2016 9:11:02 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Donald Trump's massive and massively consequential New Hampshire victory cost the billionaire businessman a mere $40 per vote, according to a study done by Morning Consult. To come in a distant fourth place, Jeb Bush spent a mind-boggling $1200 per vote.
Sen. Ted Cruz did the best; he landed in a surprising third place by spending only $18 per vote.
No one, though, wasted their money more than Sen. Marco Rubio, who spend $508 per vote to belly-flop into fifth place. Even though Bush spent more than twice as much as Rubio, the former Florida governor at least walks out of the Granite State with a live-to-fight-another-day narrative at his back.
Rubio exits New Hampshire something close to toast.
Moreover, Rubio exits New Hampshire exposed. According to America's oh-so brilliant Thought Leaders, Rubio The Republican Savior wasn't supposed to need to spend $508 per vote. With his Fox News super PAC and grassroots appeal, Rubio was supposed to be the shining conservative in the race, not the guy gutting it out in the Establishment Lane.
We have a long, long way to go in this primary season, but right now this is a Trump-Cruz race - the GOP Establishment's worst nightmare - and Revolution is in the air.
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Cruz Pacs spent more that you didn’t include about 1.5 million more.
Much of Trumps spending was for his Jet and rental of big halls.
How much did Cruz spend on his army of Texans and how much would the in kind boarding and meals come to.
Trump uses Social media, and big rallies to get out his vote. A new paradigm
Trump didn’t get endorsed by Newspaper boards, Doesn’t have Pac’s , doesn’t make secret deals with donor, doesn’t have them. Trump would be the first president who hasn’t sold his soul to special interest.
Trump is so frugal because its his own money. He is Mega Rich, but not wasteful. There is a lesson there for all of us.
You are getting just plain idiotic. Now you seem to want to limit our candidates to billionaires. I mean it’s reality check time here amigo. Are you saying that conservatives should only support people who can self fund?
A better analysis would be to combine the price-per-vote for all candidates between Iowa and New Hampshire. Then, it’s easy to see who is winning that race.
There’s a good chance that Rubio taking third place in Iowa was bogus; created out of whole cloth by the Microsoft software and other cheating...The LSM/Establishment think that when people hear someone is winning they’ll jump on the bandwagon. But it didn’t happen in this case.
Bush - $2800 per vote
Rubio - $273 per vote
Cruz - $116 per vote
Trump - $73 per vote.
Combining each state, Trump spent $113 per vote. Cruz spent $134 per vote. The rest are sky high.
Cruz's donors are pro small government, pro energy, anti illegal alien and evangelical.
And I can show how Trump panders to Big Media.
For example he goes on Big Media and gives them support for amnesty, universal health care, affirmative action and other non conservative positions.
Rubio had a good ground game in Iowa. My caucus had 7 precincts, and they were well organized. Rubio actually finished second in the vote totals I collected there, on-site, that evening.
The Santorum people also impressed me. I didn’t really see an organized Cruz contingent, but he won the room easily.
Trump had one annoying guy waving a sign, and the guy that spoke for him...trying to be nice here...didn’t represent DT’s personality well...
“I hope you found a publisher.”
No publisher will take it, because they are too afraid or too GOPe.
“In November we are all going to have to work together. It would really be advisable, if in supporting one or the other of the two, we did not snipe at the other.”
I wholeheartedly agree. I just have become tired of hearing the talking points memo that Cruz is the most evil Goldman Sachs bought politician to ever walk the earth. It is spinpoop from the professional spinmeisters.
Rubio had the establishment apparatus working for him sounds like. Big surprise there right? Good info. Thanks for sharing it.
Right. Goldman Sachs is all that. Uh huh.
LOL. GS donates about 0.015% Cruz's PAC money.
That you know of.
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