Interesting

[dreamer_easy]

"But maybe the NRA is a paper tiger. In campaign wars that now cost hundreds of millions, its resources barely constitute petty cash. Obama and Romney can pull more in a single fund-raiser event than the NRA spent in the entire 2010 mid-term campaign - a puny $7.2 million. Obama is living proof of the NRA's toothlessness. In the last presidential poll he won in 11 of the 13 states in which the NRA ran attack ads against him."

- In the US, the gun lobby calls the shots

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[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I might be misunderstanding how the NRA is these days, but I thought their power lies in the ability to mobilize LOTS of VERY NOISY voters and thus terrify elected officials with the threat of bad PR/the mother of all letter-writing campaigns, rather than clubbing said elected officials with wads of cash.

Maybe they've been eclipsed by the tea partiers...