Collateral damage from Operation Chaos?
"Rush, you magnificent bastard!"
Posted on 05/03/2008 10:09:36 AM PDT by HAL9000
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The Democratic National Committee raised only $4.7 million in April and ended last month with a perilously low $3.7 million in the bank, a Democratic insider tells Washington Wire.Four years ago during the last presidential election cycle, the story was much different. The DNC raised $19 million in April 2004 and ended that month with $42 million cash on hand, Federal Election Commission reports show.
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What explains the cash crunch at the DNC? Some critics say it’s proof that Chairman Howard Dean just hasn’t been very effective at cultivating donors or managing resources. Dean’s defenders argue the dramatic Obama-Clinton fight is sucking up most of the Democratic money this year.
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Ya think?
Paging Dr.Dean, paging Dr.Dean. Patient in need of CPR at DNC headquarters.
Delightful news. It just keeps getting better. This election will be the object of study by political science majors for decades to come.
Excellent news. But the bad news is, how much money is the RNC raising?
“That’s a shame.” [/Seinfeld]
Collateral damage from Operation Chaos?
"Rush, you magnificent bastard!"
RNC is raising much more than the DNC.
I’ve been wondering how the two dem candidates can be raising so much money, even after all these months of campaigning. Where is all that money coming from? Good thing the economy is in such dire straits (sarcasm here), imagine how much more they’d be able to raise if it were doing great.
YYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
No wonder Democrats want taxpayers to finance elections....
“DNC Is Low on Cash.” The first half of that sentence would’ve sufficed.
However McCain will be accepting public financing while Obama currently has $51 million in cash on hand and Clinton has $31.7 million compared to McCain’s $11.5 million.
There’s still an awful lot of work to do.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp?cycle=2008
That’s what campaign finance reform hath wrought.
We now have all kind of groups like moveon etc. sucking up the money and DNC suffers.
Great post.
It costs a lot for a pot party these days. I’m sure the money went to good use.
In the meantime, they are content, not to mention rolling in $ as Soros, Heinz, Allen, etc., contribute to the 527's who run ads for the Democrat candidates. What do Democrats need $ from the DNC for when they have these billionaires and all those foreigners paying for their campaigns? Just sign on to their agenda, privately, of course, and a candidate will have all the funds needed to swamp the opponent.
How can Clinton have 31 million on hand when 10 days ago she was in the hole for over a million?
I have trouble believing ANY of these numbers.
Plus, Denver announced, about a month ago, that they are broke and can’t fund the RAT convention.
Not only are Obama and Clinton sucking up most of the liberal dough, Rush has them spending it against each other rather than against Republicans. Thus negating the advantage either alone would have compared to McLame's pathetic fund raising.
It sounds like $2000 contributions from dish washers and bus boys have dried up.
“How can Clinton have 31 million on hand when 10 days ago she was in the hole for over a million?
I have trouble believing ANY of these numbers.”
Yep. Unfortunately, we’re soon going to have to suck it up and begin supporting Mcain. sigh.
The Chinese waiters and dishwashers felt sorry and kicked in another $30 mil.
Looks like the RNC is raising a lot more an has a lot more on hand.
Bill and hillary have billions stashed away. The only question is, how much money can they launder before it becomes so obvious they get into trouble—especially with the press currently willing to go after them.
Is he looking at Hillary?
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