The true totals are seeping in and the Amway Arena thing just reminded me:

DeVos spent $35+ million of his own money, for a total of over $42 million -just- in the "Dick DeVos For Governor" pile. Add that to the soft money (money to the Michigan Republican Party, all those Amway ads, Daddy Rich DeVos was 12% of the funding for the Republican Governors Association, etc.) and it's fair to say that there was $40+ million in Amway money for a $50+ million dollar campaign in total.

The only other candidates in that stratosphere were:

1) Charlie Crist, Florida's new governor, whose total campaign was also about $40-50 million because the Republicans like their swing states
2) Ahnuld Governator out of Cali-for-ny-a, and even his campaign money paled in comparison to money spent on the ballot proposals
3) Hillary Clinton, who inexplicably spent a buttload of money in NY even when she was far FAR ahead right out the gate