I Know No One Wants To Think About This: rMoney's HUGE Funding Advantage

[cali]

Will Republicans' Vast Super-PAC Money Advantage Swing The Election?
by John Avlon Sep 5, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
Conservatives are lapping liberals in the post-Citizens United fundraising game, writes John Avlon.


As Democrats gather in Charlotte, the optimism is palpable. But the party has been dangerously overconfident throughout this election, and some are still in denial about the big money behemoth they are facing this fall.

Mitt Romney just announced his third $100-million month. He has approached this presidential campaign like a private-equity bid: the man with the most money wins.

But campaigns are only part of the money in play post-Citizens United. The 2012 elections are expected to cost an unprecedented $5.8 billion dollars—$2.5 billion on the presidential race alone—according to the invaluable Center for Responsive Politics. And when it comes to the Super-PACs—the new, new thing in campaign finance—Democrats are being left in the dust.

Take in this reality check: The Mitt Romney-associated Super-PAC Restore Our Future has outraised the Obama-associated Priorities USA Action by a five-to-one margin, despite Priorities raising a personal best $10 million last month.

This is indicative of the un-equal playing field in Election 2012. Conservative Super-PACS and outside groups have raised $248 million—nearly four times the $65 million raised by their liberal counterparts.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/05/will-republicans-vast-super-pac-money-advantage-swing-the-election.html

[liberal N proud]

1. That and the fact that Romney can take a week off from campaigning

That makes me think they have already bought the election. They paid 2 years ago to make sure they had republican administrations in Ohio and Florida and a few other key states. The voter suppression tactics are in place and those republican officials have vowed to keep them in place regardless of court orders.

Romney can take a week off in the home stretch because he already has it in the bag, or at least the money bags have it there for him. The money they are spending now is just to keep the polls looking close so that no one can question the results following November 6. It will not be like Florida in 2000, but more like Ohio in 2004, where the number magically switched in the middle of the evening.

And with it they will take down some of our greatest Senators like Sherrod Brown and Clair McCaskil.

That is what I fear more than anything in this election.

[cali]

2. I share the same worry, liberal N proud

and I certainly want McCaskill to win, even though I think she's far from being a great Senator. I actually think Brown and McCaskill will scrape by.