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.
