It is "Mostly True" that whoever can raise the most money can win the race. As Politifact puts it most candidates who raises the most money win 94% of the time.
Romney's fundraising is starting to pick up some serious steam.
I have started giving a re-occuring $50 per pay period to team Obama and have donated to Martin Heinrich (who is leading Heather Wilson(R) for the US Senate seat in NM)
The Hill reports:
Mitt Romney's fundraising has skyrocketed since he became the de facto nominee, a top Romney fundraiser told The Hill Wednesday evening.
"People are coming out of the woodwork," said the fundraiser, who requested not to be named. "A number of my friends who didn't want to get involved in the primary are now coming off the sidelines for the general election."
The Romney supporter told The Hill that two recent fundraisers in Florida had netted more than $3 million combined, and said the moment Romney and the Republican National Committee entered into a joint fundraising operation a number of top GOP donors who had been resistant to giving decided to make major donations.
"This all started when we signed the contract with the RNC — that's when the general election really began for us," the fundraiser said. "There's a lot of enthusiasm out there — I can in a week's time raise $1 million for an event."
Romney's schedule is very heavy on fundraising appearances the next month, and if he continues to bring in $1 million or more at most stops he could quickly close the gap with obama in campaign money. Romney finished March with a bit more than $10 million in the bank after having to spend heavily in the primary, while Obama had $104 million cash on hand.
Romney and the RNC have a combined fundraising goal of $800 million, according to a memo obtained by the New York Times. That figure would likely mean Romney outspends Obama — and that doesn't factor in the Republican-aligned outside groups, which are expected to outspend their Democratic counterparts by large margins.
So with the outside Billionaires who are willing to donate untlimited amounts of money to the Citizen's United backed Super Packs. It's not luck that is going to win the next election, it's going to be money.
The only reason Romney is the candidate right now versus Santorum is because he bought the election and buried Santorum in states he would have easily won if he could have matched dollar for dollar Romney's advantage.
The bigger question is this, how much are you planning to donate? How would you like to wake up in November with a Romney at the helm of a Republican controlled House and Senate? Remember Bush? Same policies but with Super Pacs behind them.
Please, Please donate!!! My 6 and 8 year old daugher's future cannot be left to the highest bidders. We need to send a message before the country slips into pure corruption and greed!!