Alienating Big Business: Lack Of Money For Conservative Republicans A Trend Across The Country

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By Dan Roberts, The Guardian
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 13:14 EST

A clutch of disparate local elections on Tuesday were threatening to turn conventions on their heads across the US and force a revaluation of a Republican national strategy that has alienated big business.

In Virginia, the Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli was heading for defeat at the hands of his Democratic rival Terry McAuliffe. Polls showed the conservative attorney general at least six points behind in the once-reliably Republican state.

McAuliffe amassed an estimated $34m, including 37 personal donations worth more than $100,000, to fund a series of television ads painting Cuccinelli as a hardliner with views on abortion and gun control that are thought to have deterred many moderate voters.

“My opponent has spent money in large part lying about me,” Cuccinelli complained to NBC on Tuesday, after raising only $19.7m, including just four large donations over $100,000.

The fundraising prowess of McAuliffe, a close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton, has been a big theme on the campaign trail, where Cuccinelli claimed that the biggest source of Democratic funds was from rich backers who live outside the state.

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1. Maybe they don't want a repeat of 1930s Germany?

It's well known that the National Socialists (Nazis) were funded by the right wing industrialists in Germany after WW1 as a counter to the unions and Communists. and by the time they figured out that the Nazis would lead to the complete destruction of the democracy and the country itself it was too late. Maybe the traditional big business financiers of the Republicans don't want to lose control of their party to the modern day equivalent to the Nazis. Of course some billionaires will continue to support the tea party, e.g. the Koch brothers.

Of course many liberals and soft socialists of the Weimar Republic believed that once the Nazis were exposed for the thugs they were the conservative industrialists would end their support. There was no way Hilter could become Chancellor: until he did. And then it was too late.