“Although Democrats often maintain that their unprecedented outside-the-party campaign against President Bush last year, led by the so-called 527 groups, was a broad-based, grassroots effort, it was, in fact dependent in substantial part on just five donors: financier George Soros, Progressive Insurance chairman Peter Lewis, Hollywood mogul Stephen Bing, and the California investors Herbert and Marion Sandler,” writes Byron York. “Together, they spent about $78 million in the effort to defeat the president -- more than the $75 million in federal funds that each presidential candidate received to conduct his entire general election campaign.”
Read Original at: National Review