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Thank you dts, that's very helpful. More to the point, Gopher is right. Send money. Me, I've contributed to Thune, Forrester, Talent, Chambliss, Ganske & Coleman. The future of the country is at stake. Get in the game!

Like I told PBS, you still get tax dollars, then you don't need any more from me, cause you have my contribution.

I figure anybody that wants to spend millions for a job that pays 130,000 with perks, is an idiot.

Why would I want to put more in the senate?

RNC Trumps DNC in Fundraising

With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, the Democratic Party has a major problem: the party's fundraising operation is lagging far behind the GOP campaign cash juggernaut.

According to Staten Island political analyst Kevin Collins:

• Since January, Democratic hard money contributions (money given directly to a candidate) have seriously lagged behind even their 1996 levels.

• While Democratic National Committee (DNC) hard money contributions have slowed to a virtual halt, Republican National Committee (RNC) contributions have swelled by more than 19 percent.

• In just the two months of August and September, the RNC collected more than 75 percent of what the DNC raised in the months from January to September.

• Boiled down to hard numbers, the RNC has raised more than $66 million to the $21 million collected by the DNC - more than three times as much.

• As the numbers stand today, the Republican party has an edge of more than $60 million, after expenses. That's more than the total cash on hand now in Democratic Party coffers.

Clearly, the Democrats are at a huge financial disadvantage. They're going into battle with a pocketknife while the Republicans are armed with a machine gun.

Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe has been boasting for months that the fall elections look good for his party. But if money means anything in politics - and it usually does - McAuliffe may be whistling past the graveyard.