John Hawkins files a report at Right Wing News that is going to generate a lot of conversation. He shows what percentages of donations to conservative PACs actually go to candidates:
Summary
How many conservative candidates lost in 2014 because of a lack of funds? How many of them came up short in primaries, lost winnable seats or desperately tried to fight off better-funded challengers? How much of a difference would another 50 million dollars have made last year? That’s a very relevant question because the 10 PACs at the bottom of this list spent $54,318,498 and only paid out $3,621,896 to help get Republicans elected. If that same $54,318,498 had gone to the Club for Growth Action PAC and it had been as efficient with it as it was with the money it had, $47,800,278 would have gone to Republican candidates instead of the meager $3,621,896 that those candidates received from those 10 PACs during this cycle. The conservative movement has a right to expect more than this from the PACs that are representing it.
Update: This is just a note to clarify something based on feedback I just received from one of the PACs that actually did very well in this report. This report heavily focused on the poor performance of the bottom 10 PACs which used 10% or less of the money they spent on independent expenditures and direct contributions. However, there were other PACs that did considerably better and few that did very well. What we were trying to do is to give people an opportunity to compare the performance of these groups, so they could see those differences — and there are significant differences. If you conclude that every PAC on this list performed poorly, you’re not giving some of these PACs the credit they deserve.
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