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$480: The Price Rick Perry Paid for Each Iowa Caucus Vote
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/-480-the-price-rick-perry-paid-for-each-iowa-caucus-vote/250859/Jan 4 2012, 11:21 AM ET
What can you buy for $130? A nice pair of headphones. A romantic dinner for two. Five hours of a typical worker's pre-tax salary. Or, if you're running for president in the Iowa caucus, maybe you can buy a vote.
The average price of buying a single vote with TV ads in the Iowa caucuses was about $130 dollars, according to data collected by Buzzfeed Politics. That is, if you combine candidates' direct spending on media with SuperPAC outlays and other television ad buys from outside groups, you come out to about $15.6 million spent on TV ads in a caucus with about 120,000 total voters.
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