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Piling on Hillary

1:50 PM, Jun 9, 2008 • By JONATHAN V. LAST
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There's a lot of it going around and most of it seems, to me at least, a little unfair. For instance, Drudge is linking to this Daily News story mocking Clinton for spending $109,823 per delegate. The reporter goes on and on coming up with other things she could have done with all of that money--she could have bought Priuses (Priui?) for 9,838 people! What a waste! Ha-ha! Get it? Do you get it!

Of course the reporter doesn't mention Obama's cost-per-delegate.

I don't know where the Daily News got their numbers--they say Clinton spent $212 million to get 1,926 delegates. (I'm not implying these numbers are invalid, I'm just saying I don't know where they come from.) However, using the numbers on money spent from Open Secrets and delegate totals from RCP, I get that Clinton spent $97,688 per delegate.

And Obama spent $98,198 per delegate.

Of course it's harder to make fun of Clinton that way.

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