Sixty-five million dollars, and it lost by a point.
More than thirty of that came from AIPAC. The rest came from an establishment that had gathered around the other candidate, and the whole pile bought television that a former county health director outran on foot. The Associated Press called it at 9:56 this morning.
He said the line in a Detroit room at one a.m., before anyone had called anything, straight down the barrel at the man he faces in November.
Nobody had to be sacrificed for it. Nobody had to be reframed as a distraction. He talked about rent and insulin and the electric bill in a normal human voice, and people voted for it — which is the most damning thing anyone has said about the last twenty years of strategy.
What did sixty-five million dollars buy?
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