[IrishMike]

McCain faced an overwhelming Obama fundraising machine: While McCain accepted public financing and was limited to spending $84 million during the general election, Obama declined public funds and raised a record-breaking $640 million. National and state Democratic parties also outstripped Republican spending, hiring five to 10 times more paid staff than Republicans in swing states.

[stockstrader]

McCain faced an overwhelming Obama fundraising machine: While McCain accepted public financing and was limited to spending $84 million during the general election, Obama declined public funds and raised a record-breaking $640 million. National and state Democratic parties also outstripped Republican spending, hiring five to 10 times more paid staff than Republicans in swing states.

If that doesn't highlight the incredible stupidity of McCain and the Republican Party nothing does.

And then to think that McCain tried to make a campaign issue out of that? That just showed his stupidity AGAIN.

LIKE ANYONE CARED!

[floridagopvoter]

“National and state Democratic parties also outstripped Republican spending, hiring five to 10 times more paid staff than Republicans in swing states.”

The failure is ours. We used to outfundraise Democrats by miles. Now they are the ones with the big cash because the Republican brand is severely damaged at this point.

Alas, nothing will be done about it and Republicans won’t call for reform, because they know that eventually the pendulum swings again (who knows how long it will take, though) and the RNC and RNCC will on its own outraise its counterparts again.