A deep reddish purple richly veined in blue, like a ripe, bloody cheese, now that’s the America I say we live in for true. Certainly it's not that expanse of triumphalist red speckled with occasional ineffectual blue that Bush’s Brownshirted shills are flogging endlessly to cough up a hairball of mandate for their Boy-King. Nor is it the broad bland “purple haze” beloved of the defeated can’t-we-all-just-get-along skeerdy-cat liberals begging for the right to cast a shadow in the world ruled by market fundamentalist overlords whose "pro-life" sensibilities manifest themselves principally, oddly enough, as an eager lust for more guns, more wars, and more capital punishment.
Anyway, before we all lose ourselves utterly in the bleak contemplation of Diebold disenfranchisement, racist hooliganism at polling places, and Mayberry-Machiavellian moralizing fantasies of man-on-dog sex and partial birth abortion procedures, it may be worthwhile to give this report by the Center for Responsive Politics a looksee.
Maybe that’s not the smell of a ripe bloody cheese America is giving off after all. Behind the rest of the atrocities the familiar shit-stink of money puts it all back in boring hideous perspective. Here’s the upshot:
In 96 percent of House races and 91 percent of Senate races, the candidate who spent the most money on the campaign came out the winner. That means in 413 out of 432 House races and 31 of 34 Senate races, money trumped every other factor in determining the winner. And only 13 Republicans and nine Democrats won even though they were outspent.
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