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In reply to the discussion: Alison Grimes' strategy of running away from Obama and to the right proved to be an utter DISASTER [View all]Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Hillary Clinton spent over $30 million dollars in her re-election bid for Senator of the state of New York in 2006.
The state of New York had approximately 19 million residents in 2006.
A lot of political pundits were amazed at how much money she spent to get re-elected.
Hillary outspent her opponent, Jeanine Pirro, something like 10 to 1.
This year the Koch brothers spent at least $50 million dollars supporting McConnell in his re-election bid.
No one knows yet just how much the total amount of money McConnell spent for his own re-election in the state of Kentucky.
And we won't know until he files his last campaign finance report sometime later this year.
However, Kentucky is a much smaller state than New York.
The state of Kentucky only has approximately 4.2 residents in 2014.
Yet, this year McConnell just spent at least twice as much money as Hillary did back in 2006!
I don't know what the final dollar/vote will be for McConnell, but it will set a new record.
Of that, I am positive.
It will be way up there, way up in the upper stratosphere, somewhere well above $75/vote!!!