JOHN HINDERAKER ON HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED: “Money was a wonderful thing in 2008, when Barack Obama had so much of it that he became the first major party presidential candidate to turn down federal financing of his campaign. But the worm has turned in 2012. Dismayed by Obama’s lousy record in office, contributors are abandoning his campaign and swinging their support to Mitt Romney. The campaigns have released their June fundraising numbers, and Romney has scored another solid victory. . . . The Democrats’ only complaint about money is that this year, they aren’t raising enough of it. And yet news outlets covered yesterday’s demonstration as though it had some significance, and reported seriously on the fact that people who attend a $50,000 a plate fundraiser are–brace yourself!–rich. Together, the pitiful handful of demonstrators and sympathetic reporters coordinated with the Obama campaign, providing it with material for its latest fundraising appeal.”