That the Dems are the “Party of the People”. I also always hear that the Repubs are the “Party of Big Money”
From what the aftermath of last months election, it appears that a goodly number of Dem candidates had near-equal-to or more money than their Republican opponents.
Locally, 8th CD Dem candidate Darcy Burner outraised her opponent, Rep. Dave Reichert, by over $90,000. She still lost, and if all the numbers are in, she lost by a wider margin than the one that elected Reichert, though just barely.
Uber-NW Left-Wing blogger, Goldy said that
Yes, she lost at the polls, but she made it closer than anybody but the most optimistic blogger had any reason to expect at the time. The race was never out of reach, and it forced the GOP to devote resources to Reichert that would have otherwise been spent defending vulnerable Republicans elsewhere. There is no doubt that Burner’s insurgent campaign contributed to the Democrats seizing control of the House.
Oh, how quickly they forget the past when it suits them.
Reichert not only ran out of money the weekend before the election (Goldy cheered about this), but other national Repub candidates saw his close race and stopped sending him money weeks before.
Also, the left-bloggers were expecting Burner to win, citing Repub favoritism in the polls and whatnot.
So please, can we stop having to hear how Dem candidates are always under-funded when compared to their Repub counterparts? I said this after 2004 and had to sit through it again all this year. It is a lie.
Most definitely a lie. My wife is as addicted to talking head TeeVee as I am to blogging and reading blogs, and I get exposed to a certain amount of it. She watches a lot of MSNBC along with Fox.
MSNBC is full of Lefty “analysts” (that should be ANAL-ists) who talk DAILY about just how much money it’s going to cost the Hildebeeste to win the Presidency.
They don’t talk much about her chances, only occasionally about her poll numbers (even though they write the polls and they are ALL suspect), they talk about the bucks she has available to spend and the timetable according to which she must spend those bucks.
I don’t know whether this is a case of the DNC pulling the “assumed close” on us (the salesman who assumes a deal is closed from the start of a business relationship will usually close that deal, whereas the salesman who doesn’t close until it’s time to close will get fewer closed deals), or whether they actually DO think that they can buy the POTUS job for Shrillary, but it makes no difference.
There are just as many fat-cat Liberal donors as there are Conservative Captains of Industry to dump money into Presidential Campaigns. The (D)onks have honed their selling of influence to these fat-cats to such a fine point that if anything, they are better at it than the GOP. The proof is in the fact that fewer of them get caught these days, and the ones that do are the old-time hard-line libs like William Jefferson. The new, hard-to-pin-down libs like Clinton don’t get caught, or when they do (the cattle futures SNAFU), they are better able to talk their way out of it. Kinda hard to talk your way out of $90 Large in your freezer….