This story says that Kanye West spent $14,400,000 on his 2020 presidential campaign.
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Kanye West Spent $14,400,000 on Presidential Campaign — 13 Comments
I wonder how much of this amount was spent on failed ballot access drives.
ANNOUNCEMENT
By volunteer vote counter James Ogle [One]
12/23/2020
HEAR YE! HEAR ye! Electors’ votes can be counted two different ways but only one way is democratically legit!
One-party (AppV) vs four-party (Droop).
Bring the four-party system (Droop Quota) to the Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County (LPLAC) Judicial Committee in 2021!
The strict math of one-man-one-vote, and one whole vote per paper ballot under pure proportional representation (PPR), brings the four-party system. The first three names who break a four-way tie win by one vote each.
Under PPR, the election of every name is a tie broken by one vote, or we calibrate down to elect all open seats.
In copies of paper ballots below, the outsiders win one seat (Mark Herd), and when he stands down another outsider won the same seat (James Ogle) as backup.
That way outsiders would keep the 1/3rd minority vote on Judicial Committee.
Under approval voting (AppV) the outsiders didn’t win one seat.
Start Now
By CEO Buck Rogers [Conservative]
12/20/2020
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. Life is a series of calculated risks – nothing more. Don’t wait to get it “perfect”, just start now.
* * *
The article seems to be wrong on how much Kanye spent. Kanye’s campaign had $14.4 million in receipts. He spent $12.1 million. His campaign still has $2.3 million in cash.
That article also shorts Kanye’s vote total a bit. USEelectionAtlas gives him another 4,000 votes, which reduces his cost per vote by $10.
Using USElectionAtlas numbers and numbers and the total receipts from FEC filings, the cost per vote for the top dozen vote getters was:
$204.90 Kanye West
$177.15 Rocky De La Fuente
$127.56 Brock Pierce
$18.08 Jade Simmons
$13.10 Joe Biden
$10.57 Donald Trump
$1.83 Jo Jorgensen
$1.40 Don Blankenship
$1.23 Howie Hawkins
$0.51 Gloria La Riva
$0.00 Brian Carroll
$0.00 Alyson Kennedy
Carroll and Kennedy have no FEC filings for 2020 that I could find.
That is the highest inflation adjusted cost per vote for a Republican since at least 1980, which is as far back as I looked. It is the 2nd highest for a Democrat, behind Obama in 2008 (after adjusting for inflation.)
The true cost for the 3rd party candidates with parties behind them is a bit higher because the national committees (and state committees) spent money on ballot access on their behalf.
Adding the entire 2020 LNC revenue to Jorgensen’s receipts would put the cost per vote at $3.00. Using that method, 2020 had the lowest cost per vote for any Libertarian Presidential candidate by a substantial margin.
The LNC + Presidential campaign cost per vote, adjusted for inflation to 2020:
I estimated another $220,000 LNC receipts for the remainder of 2020 to make it an apples to apples comparison with the other years, which is why 2020 says $3.11 instead of $3.00.
The entire LNC budget did not go for things for Jo Jorgensen.
Also, Jorgensen’s vote total was aided by the lack of ballot access for other minor party and independent candidates. There were 12 states where Jorgensen had no minor party or independent opponents, which is the most ever for an LP presidential candidate to have. Her closet competitor for ballot access was Howie Hawkins of the Green Party, and he was only on in 29 states plus DC. Every other minor party or independent presidential candidate was on the ballot in LESS than 20 states.
Yes, I know that the entire LNC budget did not go towards the Jorgensen campaign. Summing the LNC receipts and Presidential candidate receipts was the method that had formerly been used by LP News to compare the cost effectiveness of the party over time. They stopped in 2000 because they did not want to print that embarrassing number. I still think it has some value.
Is the number really that embarrassing? I don’t think so.
It was double every previous campaign to that point, except for 1972.
Why is it embarrassing? No one expected a third party candidate to win the election. Let’s not forget that he entered the race at a late stage. He did as well as Gloria de la Riva in terms of proportion of votes 0.04 %. He also was VP candidate in California and helped Rocky de la Fuente get 0.3 % of popular vote in California which was higher then what Rocky got on other states between 0.1-0.2 %.
Alix – Andy’s “embarrassing” question was in reference to the 2000 Libertarian campaign, not Kanye’s.
Kanye didn’t give a shit how much he spent. I’m just amazed anyone actually donated to his campaign. He actually did manage to raise nearly $2 million from individual donors. I guess it would have been like donating to Vermin Supreme, had he been on the ballot. Just a way to say ‘fuck you all’ to the other candidates.
How much for EQUAL ballot access, PR and AppV in the 18 States having voter pets for State const amdts ???
MINDLESS ego trip spending to see names in print on ballots and small footnotes in political history reports.
hours of fun – yeah sure – for morons and/or trolls.
Ogle gets a coal in his stocking for bringing up his irrelevant fantasy bullshit.
Looks like a backfire on Kanye. He did this as a dry run for 2024 thinking Trump would be re-elected and he would have the field cleared of Trump. Well Trump will most likely run in 2024 making Kanye irrelevant.
I wonder how much of this amount was spent on failed ballot access drives.
ANNOUNCEMENT
By volunteer vote counter James Ogle [One]
12/23/2020
HEAR YE! HEAR ye! Electors’ votes can be counted two different ways but only one way is democratically legit!
One-party (AppV) vs four-party (Droop).
Bring the four-party system (Droop Quota) to the Libertarian Party of Los Angeles County (LPLAC) Judicial Committee in 2021!
The strict math of one-man-one-vote, and one whole vote per paper ballot under pure proportional representation (PPR), brings the four-party system. The first three names who break a four-way tie win by one vote each.
Under PPR, the election of every name is a tie broken by one vote, or we calibrate down to elect all open seats.
In copies of paper ballots below, the outsiders win one seat (Mark Herd), and when he stands down another outsider won the same seat (James Ogle) as backup.
That way outsiders would keep the 1/3rd minority vote on Judicial Committee.
Under approval voting (AppV) the outsiders didn’t win one seat.
See example here;
https://www.allpartysystem.com/Appeal-to-LPLAC-JC.php
* * *
Start Now
By CEO Buck Rogers [Conservative]
12/20/2020
The biggest risk is not taking any risk. Life is a series of calculated risks – nothing more. Don’t wait to get it “perfect”, just start now.
* * *
The article seems to be wrong on how much Kanye spent. Kanye’s campaign had $14.4 million in receipts. He spent $12.1 million. His campaign still has $2.3 million in cash.
That article also shorts Kanye’s vote total a bit. USEelectionAtlas gives him another 4,000 votes, which reduces his cost per vote by $10.
Using USElectionAtlas numbers and numbers and the total receipts from FEC filings, the cost per vote for the top dozen vote getters was:
$204.90 Kanye West
$177.15 Rocky De La Fuente
$127.56 Brock Pierce
$18.08 Jade Simmons
$13.10 Joe Biden
$10.57 Donald Trump
$1.83 Jo Jorgensen
$1.40 Don Blankenship
$1.23 Howie Hawkins
$0.51 Gloria La Riva
$0.00 Brian Carroll
$0.00 Alyson Kennedy
Carroll and Kennedy have no FEC filings for 2020 that I could find.
That is the highest inflation adjusted cost per vote for a Republican since at least 1980, which is as far back as I looked. It is the 2nd highest for a Democrat, behind Obama in 2008 (after adjusting for inflation.)
The true cost for the 3rd party candidates with parties behind them is a bit higher because the national committees (and state committees) spent money on ballot access on their behalf.
Adding the entire 2020 LNC revenue to Jorgensen’s receipts would put the cost per vote at $3.00. Using that method, 2020 had the lowest cost per vote for any Libertarian Presidential candidate by a substantial margin.
The LNC + Presidential campaign cost per vote, adjusted for inflation to 2020:
1980: $12.90
1984: $12.28
1988: $10.80
1992: $12.93
1996: $12.46
2000: $23.04
2004: $11.20
2008: $7.10
2012: $3.89
2016: $3.59
2020: $3.11
I estimated another $220,000 LNC receipts for the remainder of 2020 to make it an apples to apples comparison with the other years, which is why 2020 says $3.11 instead of $3.00.
The entire LNC budget did not go for things for Jo Jorgensen.
Also, Jorgensen’s vote total was aided by the lack of ballot access for other minor party and independent candidates. There were 12 states where Jorgensen had no minor party or independent opponents, which is the most ever for an LP presidential candidate to have. Her closet competitor for ballot access was Howie Hawkins of the Green Party, and he was only on in 29 states plus DC. Every other minor party or independent presidential candidate was on the ballot in LESS than 20 states.
Yes, I know that the entire LNC budget did not go towards the Jorgensen campaign. Summing the LNC receipts and Presidential candidate receipts was the method that had formerly been used by LP News to compare the cost effectiveness of the party over time. They stopped in 2000 because they did not want to print that embarrassing number. I still think it has some value.
Is the number really that embarrassing? I don’t think so.
It was double every previous campaign to that point, except for 1972.
Why is it embarrassing? No one expected a third party candidate to win the election. Let’s not forget that he entered the race at a late stage. He did as well as Gloria de la Riva in terms of proportion of votes 0.04 %. He also was VP candidate in California and helped Rocky de la Fuente get 0.3 % of popular vote in California which was higher then what Rocky got on other states between 0.1-0.2 %.
Alix – Andy’s “embarrassing” question was in reference to the 2000 Libertarian campaign, not Kanye’s.
Kanye didn’t give a shit how much he spent. I’m just amazed anyone actually donated to his campaign. He actually did manage to raise nearly $2 million from individual donors. I guess it would have been like donating to Vermin Supreme, had he been on the ballot. Just a way to say ‘fuck you all’ to the other candidates.
How much for EQUAL ballot access, PR and AppV in the 18 States having voter pets for State const amdts ???
MINDLESS ego trip spending to see names in print on ballots and small footnotes in political history reports.
https://www.fec.gov/data/candidates/president/presidential-map/
hours of fun – yeah sure – for morons and/or trolls.
Ogle gets a coal in his stocking for bringing up his irrelevant fantasy bullshit.
Looks like a backfire on Kanye. He did this as a dry run for 2024 thinking Trump would be re-elected and he would have the field cleared of Trump. Well Trump will most likely run in 2024 making Kanye irrelevant.