Some people are volunteers, and some people work for money. I see no problem in somebody getting paid a bonus for good work, and not everybody on the campaign should be in it for pure politics. And yes, it is possible to do a good work and still not have your candidate elected. After all, only one candidate wins, that does not mean everybody on other candidate's team sucked.

The Orca thing was obviously an epic fail, but that doesn't mean other people didn't deserve bonuses - maybe their part of the job was just fine.