introducing at&t mobile share. one plan lets you share data on up to 10 devices with unlimited talk and text. add a tablet for only $10 per month. the more data you share, the more you save. at&t. welcome back. i m melissa harris-perry and i am in the middle what could become a fistfight. why? i have msnbc contributor robert treanor, and over on the other side i have former presidential candidate buddy romer and cornell belcher. we are talking money and politics. it has been heated. i hate that we were in a commercial. right before we went to commercial, make your point again about president obama, because i think it s one
someone like that brings money into a battleground state, it definitely has a down market. who is the head of the so-called i heard you say they are not a party. the republican party, a mass based party. go out with ideas that are better or worse. and people give money to support the ideas they like. and karl rove and, you know, bob perry and harold simmons are the two texas millionaires who together have given $15 million to crossroads, if those three guys can dump that much money, there a party or shadow oligarchy here? what about george soros on the democratic side? i don t understand i wish. part of the reason, democrats in part are they are bought. look at the facts, melissa. the republican party is now building the war chest supposedly in a noncoordinated way. do you think this is
involved in superpac giving. once we see wall street involved, we ll see when you say texas. like two guys in texas. we have this amazing the amount of money coming from just two extremely wealthy individuals. well, 155 people have given all the money in this campaign, democrat and republican. the average american does not give. it is the 1%, not in terms of their wealth, although that s true sometimes. in terms of their special interests. in terms of the need. who gave on the health care issue? insurance companies and pharmaceuticals. look how it changed the whole debate. i m telling you, america is not just broken, it s bought. and it s bought by people who have never done better, melissa. but it felt to me like the most exciting thing of 2008 was the little red button, donate, $10, $5, $15. push back a little bit. the obama campaign have a lot of small donors, but here is the
ferguson ruling in 1896, separate but equal. it s wrong, you do not have the right in america to buy an election or own a president. let me ask that on the president question. are we focusing on the wrong thing all together? on the one hand, clearly this is going to have an enormous influence on the presidency. let s look for a moment at the amount of money raised by president obama and the democratic party, action superpacks, and the go pr every p party, and you have millions and millions, and 587.7 million raised, 502 spend on the democratic side. 524 million raised and 396 spent on the republican side. and this is a saturated environment. a lot of money, and a lot of information. and the house.
can i make a point? and two things. one, historically, you have a sitting president which is incredible. in some states, we definitely outspent 5, 6-1, and it definitely has an impact. if you are a congressman sitting in medium or small market district, raising money, think are you fine, and all of a sudden karl rove comes in, dumps $1 million negative advertising in your market and that will move numbers. even if it doesn t so if he dumps the money and the money is about romney or it can still impact your local congressionals. are you attacking the democratic brain. u.s. a tidal wave. no question, the presidential level, almost like a cruise liner if you will. congressional level, like a sailboat. it s carl rove or david axelrod,