Posted on 11/09/2016 6:51:22 AM PST by C19fan
Donald Trump pulled off one of the biggest upsets in American political history when he toppled Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday - and he did it using far less cash than his rival.
Relying heavily on an unorthodox mix of social media, unfiltered rhetoric, and a knack for winning free TV time, the New York real estate magnate likely paid less than $5 per vote during his insurgent White House bid, about half what Clinton paid, according to a Reuters analysis of campaign finance records and voting data. Those figures assume the candidates spent all the funds they raised.
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LOL! They think Trump BOUGHT our votes! Bwahahaha!
Right on time, way ahead of budget.
On time and under budget. This is history in the making.
He enters the White House owing NO ONE!!!
Yep, it was all that free TV time.
This is the type of financial efficiency the government needs!
At five bucks a pop we Deplorables are a bargain.
Seriously? Hildabeast is the matriarch for the boldest, arrogant, inherently evil crime organizations in the history of America and the article suggests she actually spent the campaign contributions on her campaign? How naive.
Trumps model for victory will be studied and become the model for candidates around the world. Which is good, because he successfully went around the media and got his message out.
When a full accounting is made there’s no chance she spent 10 per vote, probably 50 is more like it. Further, to say that he won earned media whilst she totally owned 99% of the MSM is fantasy.
Do these numbers include the enormous cost of operating that plane?
Success validates every and any campaign.
But STILL..... looking at the razor=thin victory margins in several key states.......(any and all of which COULD HAVE been defeated with just a little more of the usual DNC vote cheating)........
it is a miracle we won! (I would have advised Mr. Trump to NOT cut it so damned closed.... and actually spend some more $$$$ advertising and trying to get his message thru the communist media blackout on anything positive he had to say). Right up to the end, many people I met kept parrotting very negative mass-media propaganda lines about Mr. Trump. And, they had very little idea what he actually stood for....they had NOT heard much of his message....all they’d heard was the left’s negative portrayals and mis-characterizations of him
Had more people actually had the opportunity to hear what he had to say, this Victory would have been a ROMP for Mr. Trump, with several million more votes!
Shrillary had $2,000,000,000.00 in her "war chest" and even THAT wasn't enough.
Ole Billy Goat is GONE with the wind! I don't have to hear that name again.
Hey I got ripped. I’ve got like $100 into this....LOL
Well worth every penny.
So Rovio and others didn’t get their money. Boo friggin hoo
I want all of the nervous nellies who posted vanities saying what trump should do and how he didn’t have ads etcetc to man up and apologize
Your advice to Trump is meaningless
What Trump managed to accomplish is astonishing.
Pa, Mi, Wi, Ohio....ALL of them went Trump.....that hasn’t happened since Reagan
Perhaps you miss the point of Brexit and Trump....to beat a rigged system overwhelm the vote
It’s a bargain! Hillary spent 1.3 billion just to lose! (As of October 19)
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