$490,000 per delegate for Romney

The amount of money that Mitt Romney has spent so far is quite staggering. As Jennifer Rubin notes, he has spent $29 million on TV ads compared to John McCain’s $8 million and Huckabee’s $2.6 million.

Ronmney  now seems to be easing back on the ad front, his February 5th purchase is far from gigantic and he is running an old ad. This is a mistake if Romney actually wants to win as the only way he can do so now is if he takes McCain out and the only plausible way to do that is to hammer McCain on immigration every day. It seems that Romney wants to stay in but isn’t prepared to go all in.

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