Can a political party campaign too much?

[Kasz216]

highwaystar101 said:

Kasz216 said:
Oh additionally, you'd be shocked how LITTLE having the most money seems to help winning campaigns.

I believe it's in Freakanomics...

Obama got his campaign rolling literally by word of mouth and Facebook, which is pretty impressive... It makes you wonder why he's not that effective as president lol.

And once he got his campaign rolling he had so much extra cash he actually paid cable companys to have a 24/7 Obama network.

That was the insane part.  I edited my post above...

it appears the numbers seem to support that money and campaigning is actually the effect rather then the cause.

Of course it's probably different for the facebook advertising which is just "free" more or less.

Free advertising is more a basis of enthusiasm.   It's like whenever CNN had a poll about the republican primaries, Ron Paul always overwhelmingly won to the chagrin of the CNN experts.