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She only proved that you can't buy an election if you're outrageously blatant about it and a terrible candidate on top of that.

Most congresspeople spend more time raising money (banging the phones, attending fundraisers, etc) than they do on policy. You need a few million in the bank to be a "credible candidate", and lobbyists can get you a chunk of the way there.

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I think she would have won if Brown weren't running -- in the end, he had a proven track record doing exactly the kind of reconstruction that California needs right now, and that trumped her money.

I'm not local and didn't have a great view of it. From what I heard, she was on the air so early and so obnoxiously often that it destroyed whatever message she may have had (and the message was lousy/stale/reactive, too). I think that loses to generic dem in California, but again I'm not local and don't really have the pulse there.

Yes, she could have used a few pages out of the following book:

Modern Vote Buying In The U.S., Koch , et al. 2000-

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