Trump started June with $1.3 million... Hillary started June with $42 million

[Landslide Lyndon]

That's not too bad.........

For a senate candidate.

Just heard that Romney at this point had $17 million cash on hand.

No, Mittens actually had 107 million coh.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Money doesn't buy elections, as evidenced by Obama being vastly outspent in 2012... But it sure as hell helps

Obama was not vastly outspent in 2012.

In the aggregate (campaigns, PACs, dark money, etc), I believe he was. Or maybe it was the other way around (Romney's campaign raised more than Obama's)? I can't recall which, but he was outspent in one of those two categories.

If Obama spent 900 million and Romney 1 billion that's not vastly outspent.

[Landslide Lyndon]

I think the disadvantage here might be overstated a bit.  Trump was outspent and had poor organization in the primary too, and he still won pretty easily.  With name recognition as high as Trump and Hillary, I'm not sure how much people need to see ads to make their decisions.  I'm not saying it won't matter, but I don't think it matters as much as people think it does.

I agree to an extent - But Trump held wide wide leads in the Republican primaries and underperformed his polling in nearly every state because of his significant disadvantages in organization and last minute voters turning away from him.

Not to mention that his opponents sucked hard.