Analysis: Up to $137 Per Vote Spent on Luther Strange’s Behalf in AL Senate Race

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — One of the lessons from Tuesday night’s win for Roy Moore in the Alabama U.S. Senate special election primary runoff was that you cannot buy off Alabama voters. Although the final tally on spending on this election by the candidates’ campaigns and outside groups is not yet in, estimates of expenditures on Strange’s behalf have the number at between $15 million and $30 million from the beginning of the campaign through yesterday. Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore defeated Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) by a vote total of 262,204 to 218,066. If the $30 million number, given to Breitbart News by Drew Messer, a senior adviser to the Moore campaign, and used by Moore in a speech at his campaign event on Monday night, proves to be the case, $137.57 was spent per vote on Strange’s behalf in his losing effort. Moore: If they can’t beat me with $30 million then there’s a crack in the dam #alpolitics pic.twitter.com/13EXHSZcZd — Jeff Poor (@jeff_poor) September 26, 2017 That is not quite the cost per vote spent on Jon Ossoff in Georgia’s sixth congressional district special election in June, coming in at $176 per vote. It’s also much less than what