{"id":92,"date":"2006-11-21T00:36:36","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T04:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/92"},"modified":"2006-11-21T00:38:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T04:38:10","slug":"hillary-breaks-the-piggy-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/hillary-breaks-the-piggy-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Breaks the Piggy Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting story in today&#8217;s New York Times about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/21\/us\/politics\/21donate.html?pagewanted=1&#038;ei=5094&#038;en=c4e3b53bb7d733fa&#038;hp&#038;ex=1164085200&#038;partner=homepage\">Clinton&#8217;s Senate campaign spending<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She spent $30 million on a re-election campaign.  That number is meaningless without comparison, so here it is: &#8220;The only other Senate candidate to come close to her spending level was Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, who spent about $24 million unsuccessfully defending his seat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She spent 25% more than the #2 spender in an election against a nobody who never came within 30 points?  It might make sense if she&#8217;s building her 2008 machine, but I&#8217;m not convinced.  Everything  political is cheaper the day after election day.  If you&#8217;re building a 2008 machine, you do ads and mailings in 2007, not in 2006 &#8211; 2006 is too expensive.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t figure out what she spent it on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an interesting story in today&#8217;s New York Times about Clinton&#8217;s Senate campaign spending. She spent $30 million on a re-election campaign. That number is meaningless without comparison, so here it is: &#8220;The only other Senate candidate to come close to her spending level was Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, who spent about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}