How much money for each vote

 

OCTOBER 18, 2011 Tuesday

The Cost of Getting a Vote: $145

Exploitative capitalistic system in a democratic  society . And the genesis of crony-capitalism  ( context : USA Politics ) Swaying a single voter costs a U.S. politician an average of $145 in campaign spending, according to an analysis of election data by Matilde Bombardini and Francesco Trebbi of the University of British Columbia.  Factoring this into their calculations, the researchers also find that industries and other special-interest groups receive about $71 in government subsidies for every $1 of political contributions.

This holds good for only bench sitter voters who are undecided . It costs nothing to garner votes from people who decided to vote for you anyway . If the voter is bent on voting to the opposite party, you can't do much .

Source: Votes or money? Theory and evidence from the US Congress