Election 2010: Financing Lies

The news Thursday was the statistical extent to which those shadow organizations are dumping money into GOPer coffers--according to this study, they are outspending such groups for Dems by 9-1.

Some Dems sense this phantom money is itself a political issue that is resonating. But it's more than accountability for where the money is coming--it's about what the money is being spent on. And that is--surprise, surprise--lies. Blatant, systematic, repeated lies. High imagery simplistic and blatantly racist lies as well.

Apart from the sheer volume of these TV ads, and their free media support from Fox and friends, their potential effectiveness is possibly enhanced by the giddy attention that the media--including progressive media--is paying one person: Christine O'Donnell in Delaware. Her antics in that tiny state, in an election she is very likely to lose, is taking attention away from other more important races, with equally unqualified Tea Party candidates.

And I'm not the only one who thinks so. I heard a GOPer operative on TV(on CNN I believe) as I clicked through, brag that precisely this was happening--that all the attention on O'Donnell meant less attention on Rand Paul, Sharon Angle, Carly Fiorina, etc. So without attention and scrutiny, voters had only those TV campaign ads to go on. Not good.