I thought I would share this article about the spending in the New York primary. I was aware that Sanders had spent a lot of money in advertising, but wow, the per vote amounts are pretty shocking.
Sanders won about 750,000 votes in New York — or 42 percent — while spending more than $6.8 million on TV and radio ads, according to election, according to data provided to the Center for Public Integrity by The Tracking Firm, a nonpartisan media tracking company.
Sanders’ spending spree amounted to about $9.03 per vote.
Clinton, meanwhile, bagged more than 1 million votes while spending about $3.8 million on TV and radio ads — about $3.62 per vote.
But that’s not even the part that is weird. This is…
While Clinton and Sanders aired thousands of ads in New York ahead of Tuesday’s primary, Republican Party front-runner Donald Trump did not air a single TV ad.
The New York resident and real estate tycoon surged past rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich, who largely conceded the state. Trump won more than 515,000 votes — about 60 percent of the GOP vote.
Trump, who has benefited from widespread media coverage, spent a mere $67,000 on radio ads during the state’s primary election — the equivalent of about 13 cents per vote.
Maybe Trump feels that all the free media he gets for saying outrageous, hateful things is enough. Or maybe he feels that New Yorkers already know him pretty well and there’s nothing more to say. I don’t know.
What do you guys think?