Worst campaign in American history? The LA Times sees the big picture:
Giuliani’s $50-million delegate
The failed campaign of Rudolph W. Giuliani can claim one distinction: the worst bang for the buck of any delegate winner in presidential politics history.
The former New York mayor, who dropped his Republican bid for the presidency this week, disclosed Thursday in a filing with the Federal Election Commission that he raised $58.5 million and spent $48.8 million in 2007.
With his donors’ money, Giuliani captured a single national delegate, in Nevada. At that rate, it would have taken close to $60 billion in spending to capture the 1,191 delegates needed to win the nomination.
And that’s just Giuliani. The total raised last year by all the candidates combined was close to $600 million. If this 2008 race isn’t the most compelling case ever for campaign finance reform, I don’t know what is.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Hilarious « Ali Eteraz // Feb 10, 2008 at 9:08 pm
[…] the Repulican primaries, Rudy won 1 delegate. That one delegate cost him $50 million dollars. With his donors’ money, Giuliani captured a single national delegate, in Nevada. At that rate, […]
2 cm // Feb 12, 2008 at 9:59 pm
$58.5 million brought in minus $48.8 million spent equals a 9.7 million dollar remaining balance for Giuliani’s campaign. What is that money doing, who has it, and why?
3 Drasties - Nou breekt me de klomp. // Feb 13, 2008 at 3:48 am
[…] probably heard the buzz on Giuliani’s solitary fifty-million-dollar delegate. It turns out that for the amount Mister 9/11 spent on each one of the votes he received in the […]
4 Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Rudy can’t fail // Jan 16, 2009 at 1:23 pm
[…] the fact that Rudy Giuliani spent 50 million dollars to win a single delegate seals the […]
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