Who does your calculations? I keep reading about the 'rich' helping Newt or Romney, but nobody, acknowledges the 'freebies' from Rush, that never have to be recorded. With all the FREE air time by Rush, Santorum should have won MI outright and sent Romney packing in AZ.
First off, you are reading those stories about Newt and Mittens because they are true. Rick raised 8 mill last month. He said on Hannity today that 2/3rds of that was with donations under $100. The others cannot claim that. Secondly, what monetary value do you put on someone giving support to a candidate? Newt and Mittens are getting support from others big names. What is that worth? Having Rush, Levin, Beck, Malkin et al saying positive things about Ricks campaign just shows he is the better, more effective Conservative candidate in this race in their mind. Your hackneyed, burned out sour grapes argument against Rick makes me laugh. He was outspent and slammed with negative ads in MI and still walked away with half the delegates.