Does money hit a point of diminishing return?
I mean, the candidate now, these gobs of $2,300, sometimes you just say, “Well, maybe there’s too much out there and probably a lot of waste.” I do think that there is a threshold you need to reach to be a viable candidate. And if you can’t reach that threshold, you either become a kind of standing joke, Dennis Kucinich, or you can’t stay in the race. And, in effect, Tom Vilsack found early on that he just couldn’t get over that threshold amount. And my guess is that you are going to have one or two of the second-tier Democratic candidates who, by the third quarter, are going to be in that same position. Part of the problem is that some of these candidates can get money in an early burst. But, in effect, they have shot their wad. It will be interesting to see if [Mitt] Romney is in that category. Early on, [he received] huge sums maxing out from the people he met when he was at Bain Capital and from the Mormons. But once you are past that, who is next? It will be interesting to see Chr
