Presidential election spending in 2008

I was speaking with a friend recently regarding how much typically gets spent on presidential elections and decided to do a little research. Here's what I found
Courtesy of opensecrets.org:

Barrack Obama .....raised 745,000,000 and spent 730,000,000
John McCain .....raised 368,000,000 and spent 333,000,000
Ralph Nader .....raised 4,000,000 and spent 4,000,000
Bob Barr .....raised 1,000,000 and spent 1,000,000
Chuck Baldwin .....raised 258,000 and spent 208,000
Cynthia McKinney .....raised 199,000 and spent 145,000

While I was digging into this info out I started to wonder what the final vote tallies were. Here's what I found regarding that, Courtesy of cnn.com

Barrack Obama .....got 69,492,376 votes
John McCain .....got 59,946,378 votes
Ralph Nader .....got 729,733 votes
Bob Barr .....got 523,439 votes
Chuck Baldwin .....got 184,502 votes
Cynthia McKinney .....got 160,015 votes

So this left me with some questions, specifically I was wondering which of the candidates got the most votes relative to dollars spent, ie: who got the most votes per dollars spent. Here's what we get for that one.

Barrack Obama .....spent $10.50 for each vote
John McCain .....spent $ 6.13 for each vote
Ralph Nader .....spent $ 5.46 for each vote
Bob Barr .....spent $ 1.91 for each vote
Chuck Baldwin .....spent $ 1.39 for each vote
Cynthia McKinney .....spent $ .62 for each vote

You can all make your own decision regarding this info, I just thought it was some interesting info.



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