GOP supporters tricked into believing and repeating the idea that unions outspend everyone else in campaign finance

Exactly how dumb would someone have to be in order to buy into such a hilarious idea?  How little must someone know about campaign finance in order to be tricked into going out and publicly repeating something so completely full of shit as "It's the UNIONS that provide most contributions to candidates - and we do not have to guess which Party the UNIONS overwhelmingly support."?

That quote was from our very own colaguy, though many other GOP supporters here have parroted this idea as well.  

The RNC said labor unions raised $400 million for Obama in 2008.  This was the number that the RNC ran with for years after the 2008 election, and PolitiFact.com showed this number to be a complete lie. (Source)  But screw it.  Let's just pretend that number is legit.  That is, let's completely ignore reality for a second and instead pretend that the number that the RNC has been floating around is in fact a legitimate number that mirrors the real world.

That said, and according to the RNC, unions raised $400 million for Obama in 2008.  Let's now compare this with "outside spending sources" that favored Romney.  The link below lists the top 45 organizations that represent the outside spending channel of campaign finance.

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance/independent-expenditures/totals


If we add up only the top 10 pro-Romney organizations on this list, they total $402,243,641.  One more time.  I'm not even totaling all of the pro-Romney organizations on this list of outside spending sources.  Rather, I am only totaling the top 10. Of the 45 top spenders, 35 were pro-Romney, but, again, we are only totaling the top 10 of those.

So on one hand, we have the BS number provided by the RNC that states unions spent $400 million towards electing Obama in 2008.  On the other hand, we can look at just the top 10 outside spending contributors to the Romney campaign and see that they clearly and unequivocally total $402,243,641.

Now normally I would skip this next step, but since I know there may be GOP supporters reading this....

$402,243,641 > $400,000,000

And I need to mention one more time, $402,243,641  only represents the top 10 outside spending sources for Romney.

boards of FL wrote:Exactly how dumb would someone have to be in order to buy into such a hilarious idea?  How little must someone know about campaign finance in order to be tricked into going out and publicly repeating something so completely full of shit as "It's the UNIONS that provide most contributions to candidates - and we do not have to guess which Party the UNIONS overwhelmingly support."?

That quote was from our very own colaguy, though many other GOP supporters here have parroted this idea as well.  

The RNC said labor unions raised $400 million for Obama in 2008.  This was the number that the RNC ran with for years after the 2008 election, and PolitiFact.com showed this number to be a complete lie. (Source)  But screw it.  Let's just pretend that number is legit.  That is, let's completely ignore reality for a second and instead pretend that the number that the RNC has been floating around is in fact a legitimate number that mirrors the real world.

That said, and according to the RNC, unions raised $400 million for Obama in 2008.  Let's now compare this with "outside spending sources" that favored Romney.  The link below lists the top 45 organizations that represent the outside spending channel of campaign finance.

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/campaign-finance/independent-expenditures/totals


If we add up only the top 10 pro-Romney organizations on this list, they total $402,243,641.  One more time.  I'm not even totaling all of the pro-Romney organizations on this list of outside spending sources.  Rather, I am only totaling the top 10.  Of the 45 top spenders, 35 were pro-Romney, but, again, we are only totaling the top 10 of those.

So on one hand, we have the BS number provided by the RNC that states unions spent $400 million towards electing Obama in 2008.  On the other hand, we can look at just the top 10 outside spending contributors to the Romney campaign and see that they clearly and unequivocally total $402,243,641.

Now normally I would skip this next step, but since I know there may be GOP supporters reading this....

$402,243,641 > $400,000,000

And I need to mention one more time, $402,243,641  only represents the top 10 outside spending sources for Romney.

What relevance does any of this have today?

Please show us just one time where Republicans said that Unions contributed $400 MILLION.

Do you know how much each candidate received in contributions for 2012?

Not included in the contributions are the hours unions invested with regard their workers knocking on doors, putting out flyers etc..