Back in November, we noted on this page that Democrat Mark Warner not only outspent Republican John Warner in Virginia’s U.S. Senate race, but that in the process he spent more per voter than Michael Huffington had two years earlier in an unsuccessful bid for the Senate in California. Huffington, of course, was widely denounced by the media as the pluperfect plutocratic Republican trying to buy an election. Warner basically got a free ride. Oops, poor metaphor. That ride, the final figures show, cost the Democratic Warner $ 11 million, not $ 8.3 million, meaning that Warner spent $ 3.30 per Virginia voter, a new record for futility and a whopping 62 percent more than the $ 2.03 per voter Huffington spent.
