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it's funny because if you watch their political donations, they tend to often mirror the polls. They want to be able to tell the winner that they were REALLY for them all the time as indicated by how they gave them more money. You'll see surges in donations at the very end when a winner becomes more apparent.
well... it's funny if it weren't so damn sad.
Exactly, also the money flows into the incumbents from corporations, Wall Street, Lobbyist etc much more than the challengers. What is not well know is corporations gave far more to the Democrats from 2006 until around July of 2010. That was when it became clear the Republicans would have a banner year and all of a sudden the money began to flow into the Republican camp leaving a lot of the Democrats high and dry.
According to ABC news to reinforce this during the Democrats reign, Obama raised and spent 750 in 2008, McCain only 368 million and that included federal matching funds. Romney kept it close enough to where the money was relative even in 2012, but even so Republican congressional candidates raised more money than the Democrats and in the senate races it was just the opposite. The reason was incumbents, which ever party has the most incumbents, they will get the most money. The reason is simple, incumbents usually win.
But the bottom line is both parties owe their heart and soul to these moneyed folks. That is truly the sad part of it all.