First you said, like McCain and socialist Feingold, it was big money. Now you qoute 'cheeply'. So, what is it? Scott Brown, for next to nothing( no money ) asked for $500,000. I saw it on Instapundit. I Visa'd a hundred. by the end of the day, he got 1.3 million. So, he needs big money, eh? He got, from the internet a million a day for five days. Cost to him? Under 25k. How about it isn't money, it's us, voting and giving. Not some lobbyst with a few ten grand checks in a wine bar in DC, like Choakley did. Get real. We, all of us, spend more on lawn care in America than elections. Elections are CHEAP. I suspect there are 30 million hard core conservatives. If we each kick in a 100 dollars, that's 3 billion dollars. That is more than all elections combined. So, it isn't the money. You, McCain, et. al., need to get with the facts. The money spent is peanuts, and it isn't the money's fault.