{"id":1919,"date":"2012-01-04T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2012-01-04T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:30:12","slug":"two-interesting-numbers-from-iowa-romney-vote-in-2012-vs-2008-perrys-ad-spending-per-caucusgoer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/04\/two-interesting-numbers-from-iowa-romney-vote-in-2012-vs-2008-perrys-ad-spending-per-caucusgoer\/","title":{"rendered":"Two interesting numbers from Iowa: Romney vote in 2012 vs. 2008, Perry&#8217;s ad spending per vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* 468 x 60 Banner bottom *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3159198192\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\nTwo numbers jumped out at me this morning as I looked at the results of the Iowa caucus.<\/p>\n<p>First, here&#8217;s the vote breakdown:<br \/>\nRomney 30,015<br \/>\nSantorum 30,007<br \/>\nPaul 26,219<br \/>\nGingrich 16,251<br \/>\nPerry 12,604<br \/>\nBachmann 6,073<br \/>\nHuntsman 745<br \/>\nNo Preference 135<br \/>\nCain 58 (loyalty!)<br \/>\nRoemer 31<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Buddy Roemer is running for President, and allegedly has &#8220;Roementum in the Granite State&#8221;, according to a recent campaign email.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the vote from 2008:<br \/>\nHuckabee 40,841<br \/>\nRomney 29,949<br \/>\nThompson 15,904<br \/>\nMcCain 15,559<br \/>\nPaul 11,817<br \/>\nGiuliani 4,097<br \/>\nOthers 529<\/p>\n<p>So Romney improved his vote total by +66 votes in 2012 compared to 2008. <\/p>\n<p>And I guess it&#8217;s worth noting that Rick Perry and the Super PAC supporting him spent about $6 million on ads in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Which works out to about $476 for each caucus voter who supported him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two numbers jumped out at me this morning as I looked at the results of the Iowa caucus. First, here&#8217;s the vote breakdown: Romney 30,015 Santorum 30,007 Paul 26,219 Gingrich 16,251 Perry 12,604 Bachmann 6,073 Huntsman 745 No Preference 135&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/04\/two-interesting-numbers-from-iowa-romney-vote-in-2012-vs-2008-perrys-ad-spending-per-caucusgoer\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[62],"tags":[86],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-uX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}