The Cash Dash to Nov 6

By Rob Janicki

This is one of those good news, bad news postings.  The bad news first, immediately followed by the good news.

President Obama has outspent Mitt Romney this election year, but his Republican opponent has the money to outspend him by $4 million a day for the rest of the election, according to Obama’s campaign manager...

In the critical run up to the day of the election, the Romney/Ryan campaign team seems to have built a media blitz plan that will reach its crescendo on or about November 6, 2012.  I remember Romney critics complaining that the campaign wasn't going full bore months ago.  Now it seems the R/R may have known what they were doing all along.

...“We just found out that Mitt Romney and the Republicans outraised us in the first half of this month, putting us $45 million behind during these crucial final days,” Obama campaign manager Jim Messina wrote in a fundraising plea to supporters.

“With that cash advantage, they can outspend us by $4 million per day, every day, for the final 11 days,” he warned...
Campaign spending in the aggregate is no guarantee of success, but a carefully planned spending program building upon its own successes can be a formidable obstacle for an opponent to overcome.  We can only this is the case with the Romney/Ryan campaign.

...Romney is certainly making a late push for undecided voters, but Obama has been disingenuously portraying himself as an  underdog in the money battle all year.

“Obama’s campaign has raised $326 million to Romney’s $227 million, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission and the campaign’s own reports of its June fundraising,” The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney explained earlier this year, in light of Obama poor-mouthing himself. “That’s a 44 percent lead for Obama.”...
In my view the Obama/Biden campaign team peaked a month ago or so.  Obama's campaign appearances have been rather perfunctory.   He's has been using the same old and stale talking points, buzzwords and catch phrases at his campaign stops, almost as if he were merely going through the motions.  When a candidate, such as Obama, is relegated to personal invectives and disparagement aimed at this opponent, rather than addressing the issues, you know things are not going well.

This posting drew upon Joel Gehrke's article at The Washington Examiner.