Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Law of Diminishing Returns

Most of the seasoned posters on this blog will know what this topic means.  If ya don't, lemme splain it to yas.  I will use the Renzi Campaign fund as the model.  The Republicans have forked over $710,902 for Dave Renzi who btw is running for NY State Senate.  Renzi is running against Democrat Darrel Aubertine, who has been given $87,711 for his campaign.  According to the WDT, Renzi has 8 times more campaign funding than Aubertine.  The Siena Poll came out today and the results are interesting:  51% of the people polled will vote for Darrel Aubertine and only 31% will vote for Dave Renzi.  With the money spent on the Renzi campaign the Republicans would have hoped that the poll results would have at least been reversed making Renzi the victor of the poll.  That was alot of money not wisely spent, hence the law of diminishing returns......not getting what you expected from spending that amount of campaign money.  As the returns diminish to zero, then the Republican investors get very desperate and want to show something for their investment in Renzi..............now the investors get aggressive...............and that boys and girls is how negative campaigning starts

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