Yes, Republicans Are Totally Winning The Dark Money Game (CHARTS)

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Republican dark money groups are outspending their Democratic counterparts by an incredible margin, according to data from the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation.

During this cycle, conservative groups that do not disclose their donors have spent more than $94 million, while liberal dark money groups have spent more than $28 million.

The data this cycle confirms Republican dominance of dark money spending. In the 2012 election cycle, about 80 percent of dark money spending backed Republican candidates.

Although Republicans spent more through dark money groups, Democratic outside spending in general matched money spent by Republican outside groups, Sunlight noted.

The Sunlight Foundation also published a chart that tracks outside spending in twelve of the most competitive Senate races. The races in North Carolina, Iowa, and Colorado saw the most attention from outside groups.

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  1. Of course, I think it’ll be hysterically funny if the Dark Money interests spent all this money trying to win the election and fail.

  2. Unfortunately, every 4 years during the mid-terms, they will get all the encouragement they will ever need. During POTUS election years, it’ll be hit or miss for them, so overall they’ll be batting over 50%, which is, again, all the encouragement they’ll ever need.

    Welcome to the United States of Plutocracy. Please take a number and have a seat and your life-path assignment representative will be with you shortly. Good luck, and hopefully you draw an assignment other than minimum-wage-terminal-poverty. However, I will warn you that the Masters have been working hard to create more openings in that life-path while shutting down the creation of others.

  3. 100 years of winter, and never Christmas. Think of that.

  4. 80% GOP/Teatroll dark money, mostly spent on advertising

    20% Dem/liberal dark money, mostly spent on advertising

    =

    100% of the MSM shifting to the right.

    You do the fucking math.

  5. I just wonder how effective the dark advertizing really is. I live in Kansas City. We have the Roberts/Orman and Brownback/Davis campaigns in full swing. Both Roberts and Brownback backers are spending tons and tons of money, but for the most part they are simply repeating the same mindlessly negative ads over and over again. Both Orman and Davis have the best ads and they seem to be working.

    One ad running against Brownback shows a man digging a hole out in rural Kansas. Shovelfuls of dirt keep flying out of the ground as a list of Kansas’ problems caused by Brownback’s misadministration keep scrolling down the screen. At the end of 30 seconds a farmer walks over to the hole and shouts “Governor maybe its time you stop digging.” That is an effective ad. So is the Davis ad where the Republican former head of the Kansas Senate personally endorses Davis.

    A lot of the dark money for Roberts ads are ugly and they are playing right now a day before the election. I was always taught going negative just before an election suppresses your own vote more than the opponent’s. That a Candidate goes totally negative at the end of an election is usually a sign of a candidate in trouble. The Orman ads are upbeat and talk about independence from the kind of hidden people who put up the ugly ads.

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