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Obama Victory Proves Money Can Buy Election

Nov. 7, 2012 8:19am Mytheos Holt

In the 2012 election, one candidate took advantage of the loosening of campaign finance to rack up over a billion dollars in donations, spend nearly three times as much as his opponent on mostly negative ads, and break records for total amount of spending. His name was Barack Obama.

Two years ago, the Supreme Court handed down the landmark case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a case heralded by many as a step forward for free speech and denounced by just as many as a decision that would sell America down the river to corporate interests for as long as it was considered binding law.

The explosion of money in politics gave birth to Super PACs, a new class of billionaire donors, and even (arguably) the Occupy Wall Street mass movement, which consistently placed the reversal of Citizens United at or near the top of all unofficial lists of demands it released.

There is little doubt that the explosion of money in this year’s race has fundamentally altered the dynamics of campaigning in American politics. Both the Obama campaign and the Romney campaign have raised money in the neighborhood of a billion dollars just on their own (Obama just a little over, and Romney just a little under).

Super PACS have layered on top of them even further, flooding swing states especially with ad after ad. Candidates previously thought to be dead have hung on longer than they otherwise would because of the support of particular billionaires, while the loss of funding from independent sources overmissteps may cost some previous favorites their victory.

So given money’s transformative power in this race, and given that we now know the outcome, we should ask the obvious question: What effect, precisely, has the money had? The answer is that, despite the fury of the Left over the potential of Citizens United to skew the election on behalf of corporate power, that has not happened. In fact, the amount of money spent in the election has been relatively even on both sides, and certainly even the supposedly Leftist, anti-business Obama campaign has been able to raise over $1 billion this election cycle.

And how was that massive amount of money spent? Here we turned primarily to the one institution that almost exclusively focuses on tracking money – the Wesleyan Media Project in Middletown, Connecticut, which has been tracking the amount of money spent by the two Presidential campaigns, as well as all Super PACs, since the election began.

Wesleyan’s table tabulating the final amount of election spending follows:

Table 1: Top Spenders in Presidential Ad Race (April 11 to October 29)
Sponsor	Affiliation	Est.Cost	Ads Aired	# of markets
Barack Obama	Democrat	$265,981,040	503,255	63
Mitt Romney	Republican	$105,393,980	190,784	78
Restore Our Future, Inc.	Republican	$57,611,970	60,366	64
American Crossroads	Republican	$56,864,790	64,441	60
Crossroads GPS	Republican	$45,886,280	74,092	67
Americans For Prosperity	Republican	$35,936,760	43,091	55
Priorities USA Action	Democrat	$32,486,610	53,612	32
RNC & Mitt Romney	Republican	$23,936,420	32,638	42
Republican National Committee	Republican	$21,420,260	31,258	69
DNC & Barack Obama	Democrat	$15,309,090	7,210	53
Americans For Job Security	Republican	$9,409,230	8,838	36
American Future Fund	Republican	$6,950,330	6,722	42
Republican Jewish Coalition	Republican	$4,648,330	3,136	4
Concerned Women For America	Republican	$4,400,360	3,132	21
Planned Parenthood Action Fund	Democrat	$3,387,130	3,160	6
Thomas Peterffy	Republican	$1,481,580	653	11
SEIU COPE	Democrat	$1,277,790	1,512	4
NRA Political Victory Fund	Republican	$1,158,380	2,187	19

The numbers show a relatively even race, and the fact that President Obama’s own campaign tops the list certainly does much to refute the perception that increased money in politics necessarily favors the Right. President Obama’s victory, which surprised many, but was forecast with increasing certainty in the polls leading up to election day, also shows a strong correlation with this massive amount of spending by his campaign. The Romney camp, meanwhile, spent much less, with most of their financial advantage coming from outside groups such as Super PACs.

This financial advantage was a persistent feature of the 2012 election cycle. Immediately following the Democratic National Convention, Obama’s post-convention “bounce” was, as the Wesleyan Media Project documented at the time, merely an effect of Obama outspending the Romney campaign 2 to 1 over the previous two weeks, and 7 to 1 overall. Here is their chart from that period:

Table 1: Ad Airings by Sponsor in Past Two Weeks


Sponsor	Est. spending	# Ads	Favored candidate
Barack Obama	$19,598,700	37,230	Obama
Americans For Prosperity	5,607,000	7,354	Romney
Mitt Romney	3,344,530	4,503	Romney
American Crossroads	1,039,550	2,819	Romney
Priorities USA Action	1,056,120	2,764	Obama
Restore Our Future	2,486,570	2,711	Romney
DNC & Barack Obama	280,310	606	Obama
SEIU Cope	186,390	374	Obama
RNC & Mitt Romney	264,480	308	Romney
Susan B. Anthony List	135,270	84	Romney
*Totals are from August 26 through September 8. Numbers include broadcast television and national cable spots.SOURCE: Kantar Media/CMAG with analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project

It was only in the last month of the election, on the other hand, when the Romney campaign managed to keep pace with the Obama campaign in spending, perhaps accounting for a decent share of their increased standing in the polls. However, by that point it was probably too little, too late, considering the campaign was also the most negative yet.

Table 6: Tone in Presidential Advertising by Favored Candidate (2000-2012)

		Promote	Contrast	Attack
2012	pro-Obama	2.5%	33.7%	63.8%
	pro-Romney	15.4%	23.3%	61.3%

2008	pro-Obama	27.7%	18.4%	53.9%
	pro-McCain	31.6%	8.5%	59.9%

2004	pro-Kerry	56.8%	41.9%	1.3%
	pro-Bush	43.1%	17.3%	39.6%

2000	pro-Gore	22.7%	33.6%	43.7%
	pro-Bush	70.5%	12.5%	17.0%
Percentages based on an analysis of broadcast television and national cable spots aired from Sept 9 – Sept 30 for each year. Totals in 2012 are based on ongoing Wesleyan Media Project coding of Kantar Media/CMAG presidential airings. 2000-2008 percentages are from the Wisconsin Advertising Project.

Money also led to the defeat of several other relatively tenacious candidates. In Missouri, Todd Akin was arguably most crippled after nearly every major conservative advocacy group pulled their support for his campaign. However, in general, the relation between spending and victory on the Senate side was muddier, as many races where the amount of spending was more or less even produced lopsided results:

Race	Total $	Dem $	Rep $	% IG
Ohio	$6,006,570	$2,588,710	$3,417,860	53.2%
Massachusetts	$5,920,670	$2,990,630	$2,930,040	0.0%
Virginia	$4,996,680	$2,496,410	$2,500,270	52.3%
Florida	$4,573,340	$1,946,940	$2,626,400	47.7%
Nevada	$4,142,620	$1,997,510	$2,145,110	45.4%
Connecticut	$3,724,510	$921,810	$2,802,700	4.1%
Indiana	$3,716,230	$1,573,450	$2,142,780	44.0%
Wisconsin	$3,636,860	$1,982,070	$1,654,790	48.3%
Pennsylvania	$3,049,390	$823,480	$2,225,910	0.0%
Arizona	$1,868,990	$1,462,270	$406,720	5.6%
New Mexico	$1,813,060	$840,490	$972,570	12.1%
Montana	$1,738,280	$813,980	$924,300	29.9%
Missouri	$1,599,730	$1,370,550	$229,180	6.0%
North Dakota	$1,021,470	$517,780	$503,690	37.5%
Nebraska	$933,450	$546,300	$387,150	24.4%
Numbers include broadcast television.
SOURCE: Kantar Media/CMAG with analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project.

So what might account for this apparent divorce in the Senate races? The answer is unclear, but in all likelihood, the more even distribution of tone may have been involved, as well as a few trickle-down effects from the admittedly lopsided Presidential contest. For instance, in many states, Obama’s coattails pulled candidates with even spending to victory (Ohio, Massachusetts), whereas in others incompetent candidates took themselves out of the running (Indiana).

In short, the story of this election is precisely the story many Leftists feared would occur following Citizens United: The story of a triumph of one campaign which massively outspent its rivals and dragged them down using relentlessly negative, fear-driven campaigning, with a result that projected decisive coat tails.

The twist, of course, is that it was the Left’s own campaign that did it.

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Comments (179)

Nevermind
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:02am
someone needs to call the waaahmbulance, the GOP is making excuses . COuld it be that your nominee was a moderate liar wiht no core principles and the party of principles ( the tea party) jumped on board? The TEA party was supposed to be a wave of conservatives but since there arent as many of you as you would like to beleive you hitched your wagon on Mitt becasue you thought he coudl win. What happened to Mia Love? What happened to Allen West? George Allen? Scott Brown? The GOP is dead and became the “white ” party and lost.

Grow up, put on your big boy pants and act like adults. Nothing was stolen nothing was purchased, the people made a clear choice and Obama has 4 more years.

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- BARELYHANGINGON
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:16am
  The people who made the choice are those who are living off of our work. There are takers and makers in this country. The takers should not be allowed to vote. The only reason Obummer won is because he has created a country with more takers than makers. His intentionally crafted plan to keep himself in power. Has anyone noticed that we used to say our president is “in office”, now we are saying he is “in power”……welcome to the 3rd world country. The USSA (United Socialist Sates of America).
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:44am
  Nevermind
  
  I feel no different today than I did last year when I knew that Obama had a billion dollars to spend for the campaign & the GOP had no where near that amount.
  
  You must be happy that you are bought & paid for.
  
  The only hopeful point was in June & around August & September. Then we had Hurricane Sandy & the liberal progressive new media gushing that Obama looked Presidential. Isn’t that telling? He Didn’t look presidential the whole time.
  
  Well look at the bright point for you? The troll named NEVERMIND & Iranian President Ahmadinijad are on the same side. Just remember that. Sux to be you :)
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:09am
  When all the producers have become TAKERS, all YOUR taxdollars will dissapear ina POOF!!
  WOW! Alla your freebee’s will vannish overnight and y’all get0.00$$ cause the prog-commies will get paid but you the commonpeole/slaves/teetsuckers who expect the govt to give you everything with OUR TAXDOLLARS….WHICH WILL BE GONE!!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:15am
  I actually agree in part with Nevermind. This is nothing but excuses. Milktoast Romney spent a lot of money as well.
  
  The GOP lost because the GOP thinks that a winning strategy is to stand and smile nicely and offer flip flopping Leftists in order to “reach across the aisle”. This strategy is a proven loser, and it continues to lose. A vote for the GOP is a wasted vote. If you don’t believe me, look where it got the *few* of you GOP’ers that got off your asses yesterday and voted.
  
  The GOP establishment is whining and sniveling about all kinds of reasons they lost, but the one thing they’ll never admit is that they lost because of their own conscious decision to nominate, time after time, Leftists in a business suit.
  
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- DOra Glasberg
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:24am
  The Tea Party killed the Republican party.
  It became a party of extremists.
  Don’t blame the voters.
  Really.
  
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- Twinspeedr
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:34am
  The root of the problem is the big statistical hump in the voter demographic. It is a big semi-lazy rabble of clueless-ness. They don’t seek Truth or reality on their own, and since the Media doesn’t feed them anything but propaganda, they make bad decisions. The problem is that they have not felt enough pain to get them to seek the truth, but that is about to change….
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:11am
  ENOUGH ALREADY! Money is a factor but that’s secondary to what took place yesterday. The sooner we stop making excuses the quicker we can set things right.
  Two factors were responsible for Obama’s win yesterday.
  One: A complicit media. The media is saturated with liberals who today have no hesitation about using their position to influence social and political landscapes. They are no longer objective, they are now arms of the American left. They favour liberals and Obama above all liberals. They have sheltered him and made excuses for him or neglected to report on negative stories for him in order to protect him.
  Two: Demographics. The GOP needs to begin identifying key counties and districts and how they’re made up racially and socially. Florida was decided by the Latin vote.
  The media issue is the one that’s most easily addressed. Just as the left infiltrated the media with stealth over a number of years..conservatives need to do the same thing. Fox is one network on cable..as well watched as it is isn’t going to cut it. Additiionally…online media has to be infiltrated. The left has had carte blanche in the media for too long. It’s time to take that tool away from the left..and it can be done.
  Demographics is different and this is why a concentrated groundgame needs to be implemented. Communities need to be approached and a presence set up. This will take time.
  Time to address a few realities.
  
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- nichevo
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:12am
  I think Sheldon Adelson might disagree with you on this; his money did not buy this time around.
  
  Sent from my Obama phone..
  
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- Clive
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:17am
  Ehh… sort of agree with you, though you are kind of being a d1ck about it. we had a bad nominee, and we all knew this. if you are saying mitt didn’t have enough money, thats a crock, he had tons of it, they both did. The problem was mitt himself.
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:18am
  @nevermind
  
  When the **** hits the fan you people always turn to the decent people to fix your mess in the end. I just hope our hands are so tied this time that you really feel the pain of your decisions. Your kind never change until you hit the bottom. You are in for a rude awakening. Watch what big government does for you grasshoppers. The light usually crushes people like you into dust that you already are anyway.
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:21am
  @Nevermind
  
  I tell you my charity is finished. Don’t give them another dime of charity. Screw them and lets see what government does for these idiots like all those in New York and Jersey. Let them learn the hard way. I will watch your down fall with clean hands and a smile for you are your own destroyer.
  
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- AMENDMENT
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:25am
  FORWARD, NOPE DOWNWARD
  
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly 250 points in the first hour of trading on Wednesday morning, the day after President, scratch, Dictator Barack Obama won re-election to a second term in office.
  
  News of poor economic forecasts in Europe also drove the steep decline; the European Union is now predicting that it will slide into recession.
  
  http://www.zerohedge.com/
  
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- Bobj_1960
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:39am
  @ AVENGERK – You nailed it on the first point (second was correct too), the MSM did everything they could to tarnish ALL prospective candidates since before the primaries. Funny how all the alleged wrong doing against the conservatives disappeared as soon as they no longer mattered and we haven’t heard squat about F&F, Holder, or Bengahzi at all.
  
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- BornGreen
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 12:51pm
  Obama Principles? Take from the working middle class and rich and give to the uneducated, welfare, and unemployed. Lets see another 4 years of getting nothing done AT ALL. Cant buy another election.
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:15pm
  “In a Democracy the people get what the majority deserve.”
  
  - Jim Davidson
  
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- nurseheidi
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:53pm
  You may very well be right and I am one of those small government conservatives. I say we get out of the way and let you have everything you want. You can have the government you want and deserve. One caviot..we do it your way, in four years, I don’t want to hear one damn whine out of you that it is someone else’s fault. You own all of it!!!!! Oh, BTW, in case you didn’t notice Mia Love and Allen West are black.
  
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- Calimann83
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:59pm
  ^^I don’t care if our candidate was a frozen Popsicle! There was no good reason, unless you hate this country, to vote for Obama. the only possibility is that people, like in ’08, didn’t know who they were voting for.
  
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- whatdhesay
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 3:43pm
  Ahh, the old wahmbulance, think of that all by yourself did you? You may be needing it when you realize that you were played. You and the other Obamanite’s were a cheap date, a two dollar whore that Obama used to get what he wanted and now you will be tossed aside and forgotten about.
  
  Already his promise’s fade into the past as he no longer has to worry about the election and his thought’s turn to his next round of golf and Moochele’s to her next extravagant vacation. You are revelling in your own demise.
  
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- stopspending
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:08pm
  Very classy response, we wonder why the nation can not come together. From your VP saying if you vote Rep they will put you back in chains, to the Pres calling anyone who disagrees with him an “enemy” .to the Pres telling people to vote for Revenge. And your hateful comments. Great way to pull the nations together. Any wonder why O could not get anything accomplished the last four years? we will wait to see if he has suddenly learned the fine art of negotiation. Certainly, you could take some lessons on manners and trying to work together.
  
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- PubliusPencilman
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:08pm
  Hahaha. Booo hooo! Media bias. Boo hooo! Excuses excuses.
  
  The real reason Mitt lost–a majority of the American people rejected the ideology on which his campaign was based. A simple point, I know, but it’s Occam’s razor.
  
  Don’t you Tea Party folks like to yell “We the People!” all the time? Well… the people have spoken. Done deal.
  
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- firedbymormonmoron
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 7:03pm
  NEVERMIND, you’re right. Mitt RAMney’s MORMONISM is what truly lost this election for every true American. And considering the owner of this blog site is of the same ilk, I’d like to stake my account on it!
- Sensible_Centrist_Democrat
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:52pm
  These numbers are not accurate at all. The “money race” between Obama and Romney was very close.
  Without outside SuperPacs, Obama raised 934 million, and Romney 881.
  If you include outside super pacs, Romney dominated.
  This analysis of campaign spending is biased and totally inaccurate.
  
  http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance
  
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- lillith70
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 12:25am
  So Nevermind, how many of the 47% non-productive can you carry on your back? And are you prepared to do so, or are you just another taker?
  
  Fair share of the wealth? How about fair share of the work and worries, not to mention shouldering some responsibility?
  
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- Palter
  Posted on November 8, 2012 at 7:57am
  Really?! tell that to Karl Rove that need some explaining to do to Koch Brother, Sheldon Adelson and the like.
  
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grandma of 9
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:00am
Amen Ben__Franklin. So true. I’m really worried for my children and grandchildren.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:16am
  Teach them marksmanship. Teach them to camp and how to make it without luxuries. Get them involved in paintball (seriously), it’s wonderful tactical training and gives you a real feel for combat and how to survive it (in a way).
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:51am
  “a Republic ma’am, if you can keep it”
  
  or
  
  “as soon as 50% of the people realize that they can elect leaders that give them benefits paid for by the other 50%, the Republic is lost” or something to that effect….
  
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grams09
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:59am
I guess God has other plans. I put my trust in that he knows what he is doing.

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- nueces
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:04am
  He’s proving that the Bible is true and that man is lost without God’s Word and God’s salvation, sanctification and glorification.
  
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- BARELYHANGINGON
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:12am
  The Bible foretells of a one world government where we will all have a mark on us that will allow us to buy and sell, one source of power (the antichrist) controlling everything. This is the beginning of the END
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:20am
  BARELYHANGIN…….http://theseason.yolasite.com/
  
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Eblaze44
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:58am
NO. Obama’s reelection proves that American’s are ready to be Socialists, to have a One Party Socialist Government, the hedonistic self is more important than the Constitution, That Benghazi means NOTHING to the American People – and that they are quite satisfied to settle trillions of dollars in debt onto their children and grandchildren.

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- shimauma42
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:07am
  the people of entitlement have now taken over. When productive citizens get tired of footing the bill and quit, what will the libturds do then, I wonder?
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:18am
  Well Shima, that would require us withdrawing from the system. All we do is talk. Are you finally ready to take action, or shall we watch the last of liberty die while we gab on the internet?
  
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- Totally Domestic
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:15pm
  America: …..Give us Barabas…….Give us Barabas!!!!!!!!
  
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nueces
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:58am
Stand by for the Wrath of God. This nation has officially chosen to spit in God’s face. I wish I could believe in a ‘rapture’ as opposed to The Resurrection at Christ’s second coming but it’s just not biblical.

Get out of the cities if you can. Prepare yourself. Warn others that all was foretold and that their eternal souls can still be saved if they will but accept The Lord. Obama cannot be the anti-christ but he is a perfect fit for the False Prophet.

Above all … do not bow to The Beast. Do not take the mark. And watch. Look up. Our redemption draws near.

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- Max jones
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:18am
  NUECES the wrath of god comes @ 7th trump…..this wrath is all obama& Co.
  
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- jman-6
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:12am
  Lucky for you if your born again,JESUS will still take you in the Rapture even though you refuse to believe in it however you will lose crowns over that refusal. GOD BLESS
  
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Stelex
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:55am
Once enough people learn they can vote themselves money/stuff, its the end of the Republic. I’m regret to inform you we’ve reached that point.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:48am
  Yup, thats about the size of it
  
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noslave
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:54am
52% felt obama was on the wrong path for america?with religious and independant voters?like chavez &putin obama still won re-election??holders &obamas arrogance were over the top when they still needed voters for re-election??now they answer to no one??also when they stack the courts with radical liberal judges??voteing will be overturned??i would like to know from the silent obama media how many military votes were supressed??

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hauschild
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:52am
I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. Way too many bottom feeders in this country and their numbers are growing exponentially with each passing election.

The people have spoken and many of them said, “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”

4 more years of pretending the real problem in America is lack of access to education, starving children, free health care for 300 pound people and Christianity. This “should” be good for the market, as the real problems will be put on the back burner yet again. Money will be printed, more expensive government jobs will be created and everybody will continue to play along with the charade.

What a country, huh?!?!

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- Max jones
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:25am
  HAUSCHILD….You’re deluded…still None of what you just wrote will come to pass……
  
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- ddimaria
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:38am
  Hauschild, except one problem… under the Obama Administration government jobs have actually slowed or decreased in number. Keep trying.
  
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PubliusPencilman
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:52am
Heheh. Sure Blaze–Obama BOUGHT the election. He couldn’t possibly have won because the Republican Party fronted a succession of incompetent primary challengers that all collapsed, leaving the party with an extreme flip-flopper who dramatically changed his views the moment he got out of the primary. It couldn’t be because Romney ran an incompetent campaign that struck just about everyone as incredibly sincere. Most of all, it couldn’t be because, in the end, Obama actually saved us from a far worse depression and that the economy is now showing real signs of improving.

Sure Blaze–Obama bought the election. Keep living in your alternative universe.

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- Stelex
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:59am
  Dems/Progs always buy the elections……with welfare, social programs and free stuff taken from the hardworking Americans. Enjoy it while is lasts fool…….its not sastainable…….JAGOV
  
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- Max jones
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:36am
  PUBLIUSPENCIL……Really? Ok we’ll just watch and see what kinda hell YOU can avoid…..We are now officially on the swiftest boat to immoral earthly Chaos…I guess that is good for sexual deviants and abortionists and satanists and people like that ….Get down…get FUNKY, now. “All the hedonist irresponsibility you can eat” ,Wow…daddy are you gonna go ‘all-in’? You’ve got a problem… Its all yours…I just got shot down can
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:39am
  LOL…Obama actually saved us PENCILNECK?
  How..with rising debt? With more spending? With no bugdet passed since he took office? Obamacare?
  You idiot…manufacturing jobs have been bleeding out of the country throughout Obama’s tenure. The debt is skyrocketing and he intends to spend more. His topsy turvy idea is tax the rich guy harder in order to pay for it but that never happens the middle class ends up with the bill. GDP is sputtering.
  What do you think the chances are of Harry Reid allowing a budget to be passed in the next four years?
  Cretin…stop insulting my intelligence with “Obama saved us”. Obama is a inept bumbler who has a complicit media protecting him and is elevating him far beyond his actual capacity. This was a factor in his re-election. Even some of his supporters in exit polls are saying “he hasn’t done that good a job but I trust him to try”. Key words “I trust him”…that’s because the media sold him as empathetic and “one of us”. He’s neither.
  
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- fredt1430
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:57pm
  How did he save us?….exactly….
  
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- PubliusPencilman
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 5:05pm
  Great name calling! No need to be bad losers about it. Ha!
  
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LTinUT
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:43am
Money is the root of all evil. Therefore I must be an angel. I can’t live another 4 years like the last. its time to get my wings.

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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:56am
  One lesson to learn from the election last night:
  
  Lying doesn’t work
  
  Theblaze editors should reject stories like this that are lies and based on more lies.
- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:03am
  BARYMETHELIZABETH, Lying worked quite well for last night’s outcome. Funny though, where you lying a couple of months ago when you did say that you were not an 0bama supporter, or are you a liar now?
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:06am
  I voted for Jill Stein
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:13am
  Unlike what JZS last told me, I must need more coffee this morning.
  The “where” above should have been “were.”
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:16am
  BARYMETHELIZABETH, Yet, in your words here you have always portrayed yourself as offering 0bama your spiritual support.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:33am
  Don’t mistake opposition to Mr. Beck and his 5th column minions and opposition to the empty suit that is Mitt Romney for support of the President.
  
  It’s important for conservatives to be introspective. It is important that conservative actually be the upstanding persons they portray themselves to be.
  
  To do that they must stop the lying.
  No more “Obama is a socialist, Marxist, Communist.” There are not Communists under every bed.
  No More “Obama killed people in Libya.”
  No more birther nonsense like theblaze trotted out on their website earlier this week.
  
  And Stop the blasphemy. No more “God is wearing a Romney button” and other comments from Mr. Beck taking the Lord’s name in vain. I hear them almost every time I listen.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 11:30am
  Yes..very good HAIRYBETH…play the “good lefty, bad lefty” game to begin diluting conservatism and bring their representatives “to the center”..meaning..to the left. No sweetie…that’s not what’s going on here.
  What’s going on here is two things:
  1. The American media is overwhelmingly leftist in nature and has now crossed the line into activism for the liberal agenda. They are no longer objective politically or socially. They have sheltered and protected Obama throughout his tenure and have worked to portray his opposition in negative lights. This cannot be understated…the American media is a very effective tool of the left.
  2. Electorate demographics. Most of Florida is “red”. But key districts have enough electoral clout today that they can undemine the numbers in less populous areas. These key districts are urban and ethnically diverse. These districts need to identified and GOP candidates put in place that appeal to their sensibilities to begin making conservativsm apparent and palatable to them.
  What I’m saying HAIRYBETH isn’t new to you at all…in fact that’s what the left has been doing for decades. It’s time conservatives did the same…I’m betting that conservativsm will win in the end when the playing field is leveled.
  Stop insulting mine and others’ intelligence here by playing the “beck/tea party” card in order to begin creating “soft” conservatives in order to create less resistance to your kind.
  
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Stoic one
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:39am
After squiggling my eyes to read the misaligned tables,yes Bathhouse Barry out fear mongered all. Mitt Romney also ran a far too gentile campaign.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:20am
  Milktoast could have run any campaign, end of the day we all knew, distinctly, that he was a flip flopping east coast Leftist. The GOP doesn’t care about small government or freedom. If we haven’t learned that from the last 10 years, then we deserve our fate if we continue to support the GOP.
  
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:38am
Why shouldn’t money buy elections? Heck it’s been buying Laws, and Diplomatic immunity in Congress for decades. I’m just glad the Rhino Whisperer didn’t win, and I’ll take a whistler over that any day.

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Small World
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:38am
Well I think I will sign up for food stamps and get a free phone. We will force the system to crash and start all over again .I simply do not believe it!

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Gonzo
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:36am
Money didn’t buy this election…ignorance and selfishness did. Enjoy your victory Obamabots, it’s a hollow one I assure you.

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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:59am
  America voted and now they get what they wanted. Four more years of corruption, cronyism, bold faced lies to the public, a continued recession, increase in taxes and inflation, more borrowing and money printed that devalues everyone’s dollar.
  
  and through it all – we will again hear Obama blame Bush.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:09am
  They are giving away Black Power t-shirts at the welfare office, pick one up when you get your check… bitch.
  
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- Iamaduck
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:29am
  Hey gonzo don’t call my pal blackpower a bitch, bitch.
  
  Obama! Four more years!
  
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unsafe
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:35am
They all suck its time for a 3rd party.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:09am
  We’ve had all sorts of third parties over a couple of centuries. Other than the changes in the early years that brought us the Democrats under Andrew Jackson, then the Republicans in 1856 which did replace the Whigs and Torries. All other attempts at third parties have failed and badly at that. If they did start to succeed in this country we might just start to look like Italy. Work to change you party from within is a far better war cry.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:32am
  How did that work to change the party from within work for you Ring? I’ve been hearing that chant for 30+ years in my political adult life, and it keeps getting worse and worse. The GOP counts on people thinking that, despite the reams of evidence to the contrary, that they will be effective in restoring Constitutional governance. A vote for the GOP, on a national scale at least, is a wasted vote. Last night proved it, once and for all. We’re outnumbered by the parasites. Offering up milktoast Leftists in business suits won’t bring us back. We need to consider new pathways.
  
  What’s the saying, continue to do the same thing the same way and expecting different results is insanity? Well, it’s time to step back and reassess why we continue to lather, rinse and repeat the same behaviors and expect something different.
  
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Gary_K
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:34am
It proves other peoples money can buy an election….they just have to run a scam and be crooks then they are in.

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Pantloadian
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:34am
Yes, yes . . . clearly the Republicans didn’t have enough money.

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starman70
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:33am
With millions of untracable “Credit Card” donations from overseas, there was no contest. You can bet that the Obama camp didn’t vet those donations or return any that came from foreign lands.

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jimmyjimjam
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:32am
Na na na, na na na, hey hey…………gooodbye!

Conservative losers!

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- Stoic one
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:41am
  Ok .. your side won…
  
  so tell me, how we pay down the debt?
  
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- Small World
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:43am
  Sadly it”s goodby America.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:45am
  We are ALL losers today, you’re just too ignorant to know it.
  
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- RightUnite
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:57am
  Actually, we all lose, you included fool.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:00am
  GONZO, For a good series of laughs, just type his name into your search engine. Try not to have coffee or drink in your mouth while cruising his sites. His music reminds me of Cheech and Chong’s portrayal of semi musicians trying to be bad.
  
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338lapua
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:31am
The republican party cannot even win against the WORST PRESIDENT EVER! (sarcasm) I am SO proud to have supported a republican.

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- Stoic one
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:42am
  Time for a third party?
  
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woodyee
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:30am
Obammy didn’t “buy” this election: I think he stole it. The numbers just don’t add up. Jimmy Carter was mild compared to Obammy – I know – I lived it, and he was beat out of office harder than Gene Krupa beat his drums!

While the Asian markets “drop”, and the Euro’s seem ecstatic, the Canadians sure seem to know how the ball rolled – http://canadafreepress.com/

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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:53am
  You need to understand we are in a different Generation. Since the Carter years – look at all the people that have been born and raised on Government Freebies. Welfare, Disabilities, and Food Stamps are all being scammed by people (Us – Americans that have no morals or shame) that do not need it but it comfortably supports their cost of living and allows them to not work for anything. Its their Gravy Train – its all the know. They will not vote for anyone but the party that promises them even more.
  
  One day, the people that work and have their money stolen through taxes to support the people that refuse to work decide to give up and join the non-workers on the couch watching TV and eating Cheesy Poofs – the whole system will collapse into chaos.
  
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- tipofthespear42
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:10am
  Amen,….he stold it w/ the msm’s help!!
  
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- galicant wiseword
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 10:52am
  Well they had to pay for voter fraud. They have to pay the people that make the threats to the electors, and pay the people that disappear the people that make the threats and then the people that clean up that mess. “Chicago tactics” can be expensive. Does anyone think the cost of running government going up to 1.2 plus TRILLION a year is unusual? Sadly it wouldn’t have mattered. Mitt might have bought us a few more months or years but that is it. The path has been set. Yesterday proved it to me and anyone else who is awake. There will be no more voting for the lesser of two evils or voting for that matter. The time to make a stand is upon us. Good luck blazers, today will be the last of my posting here, I’ve got more important work to do now.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:29am
Money is a boost to the elections; it shows that people are addicted to “free stuff”.

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Steelhead
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:29am
ole McRomney lost his farm to eieiO

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maflo96
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:28am
Sad day for America. The Blaze. Glenn Beck, Fox news and conservative radio all a bust!!

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- chucksue351
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:54am
  they should have all gotten in favor will ron paul and his message would have resonated with a large cross section of the american public, however the repub’s got their way not liberty candidate for us we would rather lose than have ron paul or any other sane person
  
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- nurseheidi
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 1:58pm
  Well ChuckSue, good for you. You now have the government you deserve. Congratulations and maybe Obama will pay for your sex change when you finally decide what you want to be!
  
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justangry
Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:23am
No it proves the GOP is focused on the wrong crap and their leadership sucks.

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- ares338
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:30am
  Amen to that!
  
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- Steelhead
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:31am
  Palin 2016 lol
  
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- Metallicat
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:32am
  The voters and the MSM are the ones focused on the wrong crap. Not on fixing the problems,but how to fleece the rich and pass the remaining debt onto future generations while laying all blame on Republicans for it.
  
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- Ben__Franklin
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:36am
  No, it proves the average American no longer cares what our Government is doing or is going to do. It proves the Average American voted without knowing the candidates. It proves the average American is disengaged and takes their freedom for granted. It proves the average American is like a frog being placed into the cool water in a pot and the water is slowly heated until boiling – the frog never jumps out or notices the increase in temperature – the frog never knew what happened and becomes dinner.
  
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- Welcome Black Carter
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 8:51am
  Obama is the worst president in history. He was given a second term by an electorate which has proven that it is too illiterate and incompetent to save itself.
  
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- tipofthespear42
  Posted on November 7, 2012 at 9:07am
  The corrupt media and chicago machine stole this election!! how long will it take to get concede from the Union?
  
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