looks good for the president. but remember, republicans didn t know who their nominee was going to be. there were months when democrats were donated to obama and republicans were donated to the national campaign. they have $123.7 million in the bank. the romney campaign plus the republican national committee has $185.9 million in the bank. and that advantage has been increasing for the republicans month by month. this chart from our friends over at the washington post, the fix blog, compares the cash on hand levels for obama plus the dnc versus romney and the rnc in recent months. we have moved from a $58 million advantage on the obama side to a $62 million advantage for romney. the major romney affiliated super pacs have tens of millions more in the bank than the obama ones. american crossroads, the karl rove operation, is sitting on a healthy $29 million. restore our future, $20 million. not so bad.
restore our future, $20 million. not so bad. the major obama affiliated super pac has $4 million. not so much money for this sort of contest. so here s what we can say with some certainty. romney is winning the money race. he s winning it big time. and he s pressing that advantage. according to nbc s first read, nearly $530 million has been spent in advertising in this election with team romney spending $292 million and team obama spending $248 million. again, a $44 million advantage in actual spending, money gone out for team romney. right now, as we speak, romney and his allies are outspending the president and his allies by much more than that, by 2 to 1. yet, the funny thing about all that, the polls don t seem to be moving. to explain to us why the polls don t seem to be moving comes uye eugene robinson, pulitzer prize
check for $10 million to the super pac. that s something mccain and palin never had. so if we want to get the true sense of how big an impact this has on fund-raising which was never romney s problem, we will have to wait to see what restore our future has in their filing. i have a sense it will be big. and as eric points out, paul ryan is a favorite of a lot of the super pac super heroes, the koch brothers and sheldon adelson, who he met with last night. i don t know if he s a favorite given we don t know paul ryan s position on a lot of adelson s key concerns but he is someone i enjoy discussing on this program because he is such a powerful figure in republican politics and such a figure of mystery and intrigue. i think the question is at what point he becomes a liability for the republican party, given the fact that he is under federal investigation for his actions in china and alleged bribery, and now that he s making requests, public requests of the candidate which is to say mit
let me finish tonight with this. i don t know anybody who s impressed with this campaign so far, and i m talking about both candidates. romney seems like a guy trying desperately not to make another mistake, hoping the economic numbers will win it for him. if they get just a little bit worse and he can avoid blowing it. after all these years of running for just a few months more. now, can you think of anything less inspiring than that? a guy just trying not to crash, hoping that the economy will do it for him. obama, to be fair, hasn t been all that inspiring either. i know times are tough and he can t just play defense, and i know that means hitting his rival in the shins. but like you i remember that wonderful poster from 2008 with that picture of him looking upward and that single word, hope. hope is what this campaign has lacked. romney is basically calling a return to normalcy, all this restore our future stuff, that s what his party promised back in the early 1920s before givin
let me finish tonight with this. i don t know anybody who s impressed with this campaign so far, and i m talking about both candidates. romney seems like a guy trying desperately not to make another mistake, hoping the economic numbers will win it for him. after all these years of running for just a few months more. can you think of anything less inspiring than that, a guy trying not to crash, hoping the economy would do it for him. obama hasn t been that inspiring either. times are tough and he can t just play defense and that means hitting his rival in the shins, but like you, i remember that wonderful poster from 2008 with that picture from him looking upward and that single word, hope. hope is what this campaign has lacked. romney is basically calling a return to normalcy, all this restore our future stuff, that s what his party promised in the