Guest StuCotts Posted December 2, 2008 Posted December 2, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/opinion/02tue3.html? I don't know if the link will work for a Times opinion piece. The upshot is that the NRA campaigned viciously and expensively but vainly against Obama. It also committed itself heavily in the form of endorsements and spending in the Senate and Congresional races to tout its favorites, who were defeated. Quote