Just heard on the news that the "big money" boys who contributed to their "war chest" are in high dudgeon. Beautiful! If they had any brains they'd keep it to themselves. Actually I think contributions to political parties should be outlawed. I don't suppose for a minute that the Dems don't have any fewer sleezy supporters. Anyway politicians are not there to help the common man.
“The biggest single donor in political history, the casino billionaire
Sheldon Adelson, mingled with other Romney backers at a postelection breakfast, fresh off a large gamble gone bad. Of the eight candidates he supported with tens of millions of dollars in contributions to “
super PACs,” none were victorious on Tuesday.”
“But while outside spending affected the election in innumerable ways — reshaping the Republican presidential nominating contest, clogging the airwaves with unprecedented amounts of negative advertising and shoring up embattled Republican incumbents in the House — the prizes most sought by the emerging class of megadonors remained outside their grasp. President Obama will return to the White House in January, and the Democrats have strengthened their lock on the Senate.”
“The election’s most lavishly self-financed candidate fared no better. Linda E. McMahon, a Connecticut Republican who is a former professional wrestling executive, spent close to $100 million — nearly all of it her own money — on two races for the Senate, conceding defeat on Tuesday for the second time in three years.”
Little to Show for Cash Flood by Big Donors - NYTimes.com
