On...the Power of Money

Cash cow

In the final stretch of the 2008 election, Obama had 4x the money to spend than McCain.

Wow, how could you not lose? That is a huge advantage, especially in reaching fence-sitters through ads.

Just shows the enthusiasm of the Obama supporters compared to the McCain supporters. Too many conservatives stayed home on election day and closed their wallets all fall. Which on one hand I understand (McCain 2008 wasn't McCain 2000 enough) but on the other hand you stay home because you don't like McCain and you get someone who appeared clearly left-wing. So you get nothing close to what you want. There's level 1 thinking for you.

I'm still amazed McCain scored 47% of the vote.

More on the data of cash from Bloomberg's