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Better to Give than to Receive?

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

With the exception of this man, every serious contender for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination plus Ron Paul has started a PAC (unless you thing Newt Gingrich or Charlie Crist is a serious contender). These outfits raise money and make donations to the campaigns of other Republicans the candidate supports. Chris Good has a roundup of the fund raising and donations of each of these PACs so far this year. You can click through to see the raw numbers. Here, I’m going to perform a simple calculation and post the results without comment. Here, in ascending order, are the ratios of funds raised to funds dispersed for each candidate:

  • Ron Paul: .049
  • Rick Santorum: .888
  • Mike Huckabee: .905
  • Harley Barbour: .965
  • Mike Pence: 1.036
  • Eric Cantor: 1.021
  • Mitt Romney: 1.257
  • Sarah Palin: 2.653!!

What? Bolding and punctuating aren’t commenting. I’m just sayin’.

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