CNN has a “conspiracy” story on how Senator Edwards is courting Howard Dean. At the bottom of the piece is a interesting factoid. Earlier, I noted how much more per vote Dean’s campaign had spent than front runners Kerry and Edwards had. It turns out that in terms of bang for the buck, Dean is far from the worst:
Dean raised and spent about $50.3 million in his presidential run, and he won 201 delegates. That means he spent about $250,000 to win each delegate, including superdelegates. Without superdelegates included, he spent some $500,000 per delegate. That’s nothing compared to Steve Forbes, who won two delegates in ’00 and quit the race in early February after he spent about $34 million — $17 million per delegate.
Ouch.