Devos spent $26/vote to lose; Granhom spent $6.80/vote

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Just think how God awful a Devos Budget might have been, but thank goodness we got that a-hole Mike Bishop trying to ram his stupidly insane proposals down our fucking throats.


The Value of a Vote
posted by Josh Goodman

Valentine's Day has come and gone, but don't tell that to two lovers who remain in a tight embrace 365 days a year: money and politics.

To see how this relationship played out in last year's governors' races, I calculated the amount candidates spent per vote received. I didn't look at every state and in some cases I could only find information on money raised (rather than spent), but, thanks to helpful news clips and this handy chart, I was able to cover 15 key states.

* Unsurprisingly, Michigan's free-spending Republican nominee, Dick DeVos, spent the most at almost $26 per vote. But if I'd been looking at primaries too, California's Steve Westly would have far surpassed him at $40.6 per vote. Both lost.

MI DeVos 25.9
MI Granholm 6.8