in talking politics it is easy, in fact, it s fun for those who have a high whack factor, candidates who outline the cuckoo meter, the cuckometer. it is easy to talk about them. it is hard and less fun to talk about money and politics, but this year the thing that is hard to talk about, money, and the thing that is very easy to talk about, cook inter-related. you cannot understand the cookiness of this year s slate of candidates to not unhow cash is working in this year s election. in order to help facilitate that understanding we invented a graph last week we call it a not a scientific graph of kiikiness
millions of dollars being spent on his behalf by unknown donors and they makes him seem way more viable than he would otherwise seem. art robinson, $150,000 but sharron angle, $14 million. that compensates for a lot of cook iness. so sharron angle may be way way out there on the kooky scale but she s still electorally viable because she has so much money. armed with her high kookiness factor but high infusion of cash, the latest pooling shows her roughly tied. it shows she s on-on-that line of viability. sure it s taking a precedent of fund raising to get her there, but apparently $4 million is about what it costs to turn a sharron angle into something
candidate be viable as lodge as you have all the money in the world seem viable and that s what explains the biggest shocker headline in politics today. that ee s sharron angle who say conservatives should be skpeblted to take up arms as in guns if they don t get their way in this next election. sharron angle raised $14 million last quarter in her race against senate majority reader harry reid. i know it s just a number. $14 million. there s lots of dollar signs being talked about in this year s elections. but $14 million in this year s campaign is a lochlt it s a nearly record-setting amount of money. it s one thing to talk about our friend art robinson from oregon talking about aids being a conspiracy and you should sprinkle nuclear waste into tension t oceans. his cookiness is being offset by