Costly Election

If you take the dollars spent on this election:

Congressional Elections: Missouri District 07 Race: 2010 Cycle – OpenSecrets.org

and divide by the votes:

State Of Missouri – U.S. Representative – District 7 – Summary – MO Secretary of State

you get the cost paid per vote:

Billy Long      = $7.13 per vote
Scott Eckersley = $3.01 per vote
Kevin Craig     = $0.02 per vote

I went to a government-run school, so I admit I can’t do math. My only campaign cost was gas to get to the debates.

I’m quite happy I passed the 10,000 vote mark. I didn’t do as well as the KOLR poll suggested, but still did very well for a Libertarian in a hotly-contested three-way race.

If I could have convinced an additional 70,131 Republicans to abandon the GOP and vote Libertarian, I could have won this election. But that would have cost me around $2,000 dollars (at my present rate of campaign efficiency).

I feel sorry for Scott Eckersley, who seems like a nice guy, but raised possibly a quarter of a million dollars and got fewer votes than Jack Truman did in 2006. I never saw Truman during the entire campaign. I don’t know if he campaigned at all. He didn’t spend much, if anything. This is why the Democrat Party never spends any money in this district.

Read more at Kevin Craig for Congress