Tuesday, October 7, 2008

The Fat Cats Are Trying To Buy The Election!

The Fat Cats Are Trying To Buy The Election!

Using vast quantities of money, some of it clearly obtained illegally, to gobble up all the television advertising time! But because it is a Democrat doing it, Democrats won't get all huffy about the evils of the fat cats this time around. From the Washington Post:

Barack Obama is outspending John McCain at nearly a three-to-one clip on television time in the final weeks of the presidential election, according to ad buy information obtained by The Fix, a financial edge that is almost certainly contributing to the momentum for the Illinois senator in key battleground states.
From Sept. 30 to Oct. 6, Obama spent more than $20 million on television ads in 17 states including more than $3 million in Pennsylvania and more than $2 million each in Florida, Michigan and Ohio. McCain in that same time frame spent just $7.2 million in 15 states. Even when the Republican National Committee's independent expenditure spending in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin is factored in (a total of $5.3 million), Obama still outspent the combined GOP forces by roughly $8 million in the last week alone. (See full distribution after the jump.)
It does look like Obama's going to win this--and this country is going to be in for a world of hurt. If we're lucky, it will just be a matter of impoverishing us. If his delusions about foreign policy get implemented, we might not be so lucky as to only be impoverished.

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