[sam_paine]

I suspect some of those funds continued to trickle in during the last days of the election cycle, perhaps not being firm enough to spend prior to the election.

Sure. But if a million bucks "trickled" in during the last days, was the outrageous pummeling of the off-the-cuff elevator Cornyn comment that they might direct their paltry $40k from the NRSC to some other candidate where it might make a difference.

How much difference could that $7M have done in other close conservative races?

[DoughtyOne]

I’m not convinced that Rove, the RNC, and other loud intemperate mouths that didn’t want O’Donnell to win, didn’t ultimately cost her the election.

It’s impossible to build support when your own party is savaging you because you weren’t who they wanted.

O’Donnell should have been able to come out of the primary on a roll. Instead she came out of it being rolled.

Frankly, I think the guy in Alaska got the same treatment.

And then you look at McCain, and how much the RNC and the Rove types supported him against his primary challenger. What a disgrace.