Wouldn't surprise me if we never have a presidential candidate request matching funds again.
Money aside, Romney is running a great campaign and while most of us focus on the ad campaign, Romney also has a huge ground game in place that is going to yield some great results. I read an article earlier today that Romney is busing in volunteers from out of state to do door knocking in states where early voting is taking place.
They are actually by-passing households that they already know is voting Romney on Election Day and concentrating on the voters who are not super motivated to vote. In contrast, Obama's campaign is concentrating on people that they already know are going to vote their way. So Romney is piling up early votes with people that might otherwise have not voted and Obama is "shooting his wad" now just trying to keep up with Romney. On Election Day itself, the hard-core Romney voters are simply going to overwhelm the remaining Obama voters at the polling places. Think Chik-Fil-A on a much larger scale.
Give Romney and the GOP a lot of credit this year. They have managed to survive a barrage of negative advertisements all summer long by the Obama campaign in which they could not effectively respond (unlike Obama, they had to spend most of their pre-general election money on the primaries) and they had the mainstream media not only not on their side but actively supporting their opponent. Yet when the general election came around, they were able to mount a formidable campaign nonetheless both in the airwaves and on the ground.
So, are you saying that the GOP-e was right? That Romney was the most conservative candidate who could win? I only ask because I am starting to think so myself. I cannot imagine a campaign being run too much better by any of his primary foes.