Money isn’t everything: Clinton spends twice as much as Trump in losing presidential bid

While both campaigns went on a spending spree in the final stretch, Mrs. Clinton was left with only $839,000 on hand by the end of the

Hillary Clinton at a UNICEF event on November 29, introducing Katy Perry (AP photo)

election, while Mr. Trump still had $7.6 million. Mrs. Clinton wound up blowing past the spending record set in 2012 by President Obama, whose campaign and Democrat committees spent $1.12 billion, slightly more than the $1.02 billion spent by Republican Mitt Romney and GOP groups. The Trump campaign committee alone spent $328.4 million through late November as opposed to $563.9 million by the Clinton camp, according to the FEC. In other words, Mr. Trump’s 306 electoral votes cost about $1.05 million a piece, while each of Mrs. Clinton’s 232 electoral votes cost $2.43 million, an NBC News analysis found.   Please click on the link from Valerie Richardson from the Washington Times.