Collapse of the Perry Money Machine. Oops.

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ByWayne Slater/Reporter

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7:41 AM on Sun., Feb. 12, 2012 | Permalink
You think Rick Perry's infamous "Oops" debate doomed his campaign? He was in deep trouble long before that, according to campaign fundraising. The Perry campaign started great guns on Aug. 13, collecting an average of $312,675 every day until Sept. 22. That's when Perry stumbled badly in the presidential debate in which he bungled a prepared attack line about whether Mitt Romney was a flip-flopper. In a strange, disassociated stream of consciousness, Perry asked whether Romney "was on the side of against the Second Amendment before he was for the Second Amendment? Was it was before he was before the social programs from the standpoint of he was for standing up for Roe versus Wade before he was against first Roe versus Wade?" All downhill from there.

Here's a picture of the collapse, in which Perry started his campaign raising an astonishing daily average of $312,675 in the first month, then fell precipitously until the end, when he was taking in only an average of $15,617 each day in the final month of 2011.
http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/02/collapse-of-the-perry-money-ma.html

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1. Ha ha ha ha

The graph on the DMN site is worth the visit. Nosedive!