CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper August 3, 2015 20:57:00
Welcome back to "the lead." our money lead now. with so much focus on the polls, sometimes you forget the democrats and republicans have another metric to measure how well the campaigns are doing -- the almighty dollar. how much the super-paks supporting them are raising. for the first time almost every candidate has one of these supe super-pacs suffering them, they have amassed a collective fortune of $258 million in donations, nearly ten times as much as donors forked over by that date in the 2012 cycle. what does this meerch in terms of how much influence these multimillion contributors wil...