YET DEMOCRATS THINK BIG MONEY BUYS ELECTIONS?:

Democrats Top Independent Election Spending: The Republican Senate committee comes in second (Danielle Kurtzleben, November 2, 2010, US news)

In the last full week before Election Day, party committees and PACs put on their big final push to influence the electorate. These groups' spending on independent expenditures--political communications made in support of or against specific candidates--can provide insight into which races remain the most contentious. Last week, the races that attracted the most of this spending were battleground Senate contests. Parties and PACs spent over $7 million on Pennsylvania's race, followed by the Senate contest in Colorado, which attracted $5.9 million, and the contest in Illinois, where political action committees and parties spent $5.6 million trying to get voters' attention. However, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which only concerns itself with House races, was by far last week's biggest spender, with $24.4 million in independent expenditures. This is more than twice the amount spent by the No. 2 group, the National Republican Senatorial Committee.