Romney Campaign spends same as Obama Campaign for HALF the staff.

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13. Mittens isn't losing because the keystone team is leaking information,

though it's not helping. You also have continued instances of the candidate contradicting himself. Romney can raise a lot of money, but he hasn't sold his vision to the undecideds and even his own party fought against him in the primary in an "anybody but Romney" effort. Now Romney has turned right to appeal to his base (he didn't give a shit about abortion when he was MA governor) but they already don't trust him and that move isn't helping to bring in undecideds either. He's asked people to "trust him" rather than release specifics (on his tax plans or even his personal tax history), but seems to have only lead to speculation that he's hiding something people won't like.

I don't recall how much staffers made being a HUGE issue for McCain or Obama in '08, Kerry or * in '04, Gore or * in '00 or even Clinton or Dole in '96. Sure, maybe it matters in a congressional race where the amount of money is far, far less, but I can't recall it ever having a significant impact on a presidential race.