Thanks to blogger Ryan Grim on Huffington Post, here's a little fact to put the whole Iowa caucus thing in perspective. They carry far more weight in the media frenzy than seems warranted from the numbers.
Expected turnout tonight for the Republican caucuses: 115,000.
Attendance at a single University of Michigan football game: 114,804.
The Associated Press reported that $13 million has been spent on political TV ads. That comes to $113 per vote. And that doesn't even count all the other expenses of running a campaign.
Ralph
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Now comes news that the attendance at the Republican caucuses was only 5.4% of the voting population of Iowa.
ReplyDeleteMuch ado about not very much.