The election was purchased with entitlements in my view.
As long as the regime can create unlimited Baraqqi/Bernanke/Lew minibucks, I see no reason for that to change.
Recall that David Axelrod in early 2009 insisted that the White House run the 2010 census, and post-election reports that that data was tapped for 2012 get-out-the-vote efforts targeting people who had relocated into battleground states.
The post-2012 motto is now becoming: “It’s the data, stupid”