Obamarama wiped McCain out with money.
NOTE: This article was written by Karl Rove, so take it however you will.
It looks like Obama spent about $250,000,000.00 more than McCain on this election. If this number is found to be accurate, it would be the biggest gap in spending between two candidates ever. Really, it's not terribly surprising that the winner of the election spent more money; we watch a lot of TV collectively as a country. McCain was right when he said that Obama was a celebrity. He worked the TV shows and the ads pretty well, I think.
Anyway, the real problem, according to Karl, is that Obama accepted donations from untraceable sources:
But that's not the entire story. It's been reported that the Obama campaign accepted donations from untraceable, pre-paid debit cards used by Daffy Duck, Bart Simpson, Family Guy, King Kong and other questionable characters. If the FEC follows up with a report on this, it should make for interesting reading.
Karl doesn't seem bitter at all though.
Untraceable?! Thats an
Untraceable?! Thats an obamanation!
There was nothing preventing small donors from using prepaid cards to give to McCain. If the prepaid untraceable thing is or was at all plausible, you can bet your ass that Karl Rove et al would have been all over it.
The cold hard truth, though, is too simple, too painful, and too obvious for people like Rove to acknowledge - gazillions of regular Americans really don't like the Bush/McCain/Rove Republican Party and really do like Obama. They voted for Obama in record numbers, and they made donations in record numbers - large and small.
A few years ago, Obama's unlikely triumph would not have been possible - but, for the first time, the internet has empowered everyday Americans to quickly and easily donate money - even if just a few bucks - directly to the politicians they like. Big donors and interest groups and the Karl Roves of the world just aren't running the show anymore.
QQ Rove, QQ. You're entitled to you're math, but the rest of us are entitled to THE MATH! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
FAIL!
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