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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: Bill Clinton is finding his "comfortable shoes" to come to Wisconsin [View all]joshcryer
(62,269 posts)You can say that the DNC should have just dumped $25 million into Barrett's campaign as soon as he was selected in the WI Democratic Primary, but I just don't see it. That's a whole half of what the DNC raised in March, which is to go to hundreds of campaigns around the country. It has to be spent really wisely. The DNC gave WI Democrats $1.2 million (after much outrage that the DNC wasn't helping, of course, I don't deny that), but that pales into comparison to Koch spending in the campaign.
Being outspent is not the end of the world, though. We win with numbers. Not hard dollar numbers, but people numbers.
edit: actually if you go to Open Secrets you see that the numbers are much more dire than that: http://www.opensecrets.org/parties/totals.php?cycle=2012&cmte=DNC
Walkers campaign alone has 65% of what the entire DNC has to spend for politicians in the party across the whole country.