Republicans=$54 Million; Democrats=$4 Million:

That's the story behind Barack Obama's rejection of public campaign financing. (See The New York Times' story.) The Grand Old Party—now owned lock, stock and barrel by big oil—is the run a way leader in gathering financing; it's John McCain who can't raise much money. The party has limitations on the sorts of adds it can run with the truck loads of money it has. For instance, it can run "swift boat" adds like crazy, spreading all sorts of lies about Obama; it just can't overtly support McCain.