Thursday, April 26, 2012

Dick Lugar Spent $84k on Polling with Nothing to Show for it

I went through Dick Lugar's latest FEC reports this evening. I only looked at his April filing and his pre-primary filing. Since polling was in the news today, I wanted to see how much the senior senator from Indiana had spent on polling.

Lugar made four payments to New Jersey-based National Research Inc for "polling research". Here are the dates and dollars for those expenditures:

Date Expenditure
02/21/12 $46,252.00
03/12/12 $11,167.00
03/26/12 $16,167.00
04/09/12 $10,000.00

$83,586.00

Simply put, two months ago he spent $46,252 on polling and nothing National Research told him was worth forwarding to the press.

Ouch.


Update: Thanks to Smitty at the OtherMcCain for the link!

2 comments:

Brian D. Paasch said...

Nice research! And yeah, ouch. But the elite deserve lots of "ouch".

dsm said...

Thanks, Brian!

Be sure to checkout my research into the $100k Lugar apparently spent on phonebanks.