cycle. i think there is a problem with her trying to create this inhe have vitt tabbili inevitabili. not necessarily put out narrative just yet that 2016 is on the horizon, we are only in 2013, i thought i would feel better rested. talk about inevitability, anybody raise the kind of money she could? who knew that senator obama at the time would come out and such a powerhouse. break all records. vice president joe biden certainly made noises about the possibility of running for president in 2016. does he have the same sort of money advantage? perhaps if he plugged into president obama s own fund-raising machine, but that s for democrats i think to sort out. none of the other potential democratic candidates has anything like this. not joe biden yet. not andrew cuomo. not martin o malley. do they all have to wait for hillary clinton to make a decision?
summer the incumbent money advantage. they have the support of the nrc, the house republican campaign arm. what they don t have as much of is that tea party wave feeling, that grassroots support from folks who will do anything to get the democrat in office out of office. now they re incumbents, and they have to talk up a good game about, hey, i know how to work with the other guy. 2012 is different than 120 when it comes to the popularity of the tea party. if you re in a close district, you don t want the tea party label on you right now. martin, does this mean let s look farther forward past election day. are we seeing them gel? is that a possibility here? that is the other thing happening. republicans argue they don t need to talk to the tea party as a separate entity anymore, and it s the house republican agenda right now. there s not a lot of daylight
money advantage but outside groups pay more for tv ads than candidates. president obama and his allies spent $45 million for 93,000 spots while almost the same amount of money only bought romney and allies 69,000 spots. how significant, senator, could that be, especially in these crucial remaining weeks? well, there s a difference in the cost of spots bought by a candidate or a super-pac. we have not talked about it but what s going on is disgusting and shameful. this is a money pit in which the some very, very wealthy people have billionaires trying to buy a government. first time in history seeing the full flower of the supreme court decision in citizens united. it s disgusting and this country can t continue down this road. we have to find a way to fix that and repair the damage done by the citizens united decision from the supreme court.
in virginia beach at an amphitheater there. that being one of the largest military communities in the country. at the same time, mitt romney is going to address vets at an american legion post in springfield. romney still has this huge money advantage, so how does he turn this thing around to make it worth his while with all that cash in reserves, can he be able to pull through in virginia and take it on to other places like north carolina? well, i think one of the things you see them doing already is doing the more direct ads. of course he had that ad where he s looking directly at the camera talking out his empathy, casting himself as a compassi compassionate person. i think you will obviously see that. and there are obviously looking at the debates as well as a real chance to clarify their positions. they feel like president obama and democrats have really run an inaccurate campaign and they feel like the debates will be their first chance to really go one-on-one and really point
the polls give the president is substantial lead on foreign policy. to the point that morris was also making here, do republicans have an opening because of what happened last week? republicans have to be very careful on jumping the gun too soon as we saw with the romney campaign on tuesday. that doesn t mean that they can t come out and state what they believe is the best policies going forward, especially when it comes to israel. that is a bit of an opening for the republicans. but to try and figure out what s going to happen day by day in the middle east is next to impossible. and because it s next to impossible, that instability will become could become problematic for the president. nia, last question to you here. the obama campaign outspending the romney campaign seven to one during the weeks before the convention. now the romney campaign will unleash the firepower of that funding advantage that morris was talking about. will romney s money swamp the message here? what do y