The Daily Toxin

As much as I hate to say that I agree with Hillary Clinton, she made a great point yesterday about why Obama has failed to close the deal after looking unstoppable barely over a month ago. He has finally been vetted like a normal politician, and it turns out he has dirt on him just like any other politician. But what really encourages me going into the general election is that he has been so completely unable to capitalize on his huge fundraising advantage. He outspent Clinton on ads by more than 2-1 in PA (and outspent her overall by about 3.5-1), but lost by 10 percentage points. He outspent her in Texas (I can’t even count how many Obama ads I saw over a three week span before the primary) and Ohio and lost there too. It’s a given that if he is still the nominee he’ll have a lot more money to spend than McCain. But given that Barack is throwing money around lately and losing and McCain got horribly outspent in the Republican primary and won, that fact just doesn’t worry me as much as it used to.