“Mr. Soros believes that he can be most effective by funding groups that promote progressive policy outcomes in areas such as health care, the environment and foreign policy,” said an adviser, Michael Vachon. “So he has opted to fund those activities.”
But not the Democratic party. Which leaves the terrain wide open to huge Republican donors, according to a report in the Times.
In the last week, Republican-leaning groups outspent their Democratic counterparts on television by more than seven to one on Senate races and nearly four to one on House races across the country, according to data from the Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks political advertising. The gap shows few signs of abating, even with the midterm election season in full swing.
Meanwhile, President Obama is encountering some well-aimed barbs from supporters in his "backyard" and "town hall" rallies, according to NPR. While people agree his long-term goals are laudable, they are flummoxed by the apparent lack of attention to foreclosures and matters of immediate concern to voters.
The Citizens United ruling has turned into a double-whammy against Democrats.
It also appears, however, that Republicans have outmaneuvered their Democratic counterparts since the Citizens United decision. They have taken advantage of Democratic broadsides against the ruling, which have inevitably had an effect on the attitudes of Democratic donors.
Mr. Obama devoted one of his weekly radio addresses this month to the effect he said untamed special interests were having on the midterm election. “We can see for ourselves how destructive to our democracy this can become,” he said. “We see it in the flood of deceptive attack ads sponsored by special interests using front groups with misleading names.”
Several Democratic strategists said the White House’s denunciations had made entreaties to prospective donors trickier.
New donor groups are springing up but not in time, it is generally believed, to save the Democrats in this election cycle.
