We're told that publicly disclosed campaign money is a determinant factor in an election. And there's still some truth to that, but this is not 2009 (ie: before Citizens United v FEC), and we've drifted away from being the kind of democracy we keep telling ourselves we are.
Press Poodles need to start looking beyond what a candidate (particularly a GOP candidate) has in their "campaign war chest".
Any given Republican running for any given office can be pretty sure that whatever they spend on ads and such will be supplemented 3- or 5- or 10-fold by private (and anonymous) "donors" who are basically buying that candidate's vote at whatever level of government they're going to "serve".
And while there's a good bit of that on the Dems' side as well, I estimate a very large majority of it goes to the benefit of the GOP.
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