During the homestretch of the presidential race, Obama, Axelrod, Emanuel and Messina will try to bring back their 2008 formula of electoral success: money, message and get out the vote.
There are some things, even in American electoral politics, that money can't buy.
They want the election over with.The electoral stimulusAll that money the candidates have been splashing out is useful at a time when Indonesia's economy is cooling sharply in the draught from the global downturn.
"Shamelessly you will discover politicians, against the electoral law, distributing money," says Bawa Abdullahi Wase of the Nigeria-based Network For Justice rights group.
Given increasing skepticism about the accuracy of the vote count, resources invested in risk-limiting electoral audits is money well spent.
By taking the reins off big-money electoral donations by corporations and labor unions, Citizens United has unmistakably broadened the political influence of the wealthy and powerful.
Podesta and Lehane urged Steyer to spend his money on electoral politics, to force politicians to pay a price.
In Citizens United, in which the court unleashed corporate, union and other money into electoral politics, the majority overturned a century of precedent that it had twice recently reaffirmed.
Worse, there was the news that Herrera and some players had allegedly participated in the violation of Mexican electoral laws by taking money to send out election-day tweets on behalf of a PRI satellite party.
Old hands such as Mr Miller are sure that voters feel alienated by an electoral system awash in money, wondering how their voices count in an age of $25m Senate races and multi-billion dollar presidential contests.
