Posted on 09/15/2008 5:24:10 AM PDT by pjsbro
Barack Obama's $66 million haul in August donations may set records but it's only a down payment on the huge sums the Democratic presidential nominee must continue to collect in order to compete through the Nov. 4 election.
Obama is attempting to become the first candidate to privately finance the general election phase of his campaign, and his August performance seems to be a good start.
His announcement that he had $77 million in cash in the bank at the end of August came strikingly close to the roughly $85 million in taxpayer funds that Republican John McCain has to spend on the entire general election.
But the August sum came after a full-court press by the campaign and in the midst of the Democratic National Convention, historically an easier time to generate donations because the party base is focused and united. The campaign announced that it had recruited 500,000 new donors in August, which brings the number of total contributors to 2.5 million.
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Anyone keeping a running total of how much the Messiah has taken in?
Obama lied, because he said he would take public financing and then didn’t.
LOL.
Finally!
A government handout program Obama DOESN’t support!
Obama has taken in $456,000,000 incl. the $66 mil in Aug.
He says he has $77 mil on hand (no report on pledges/future cash). Looks like he knows how to blow money, too.
A better question would be to ask how much has he spent or blown since beating Hillary?
zerO waited until McCain had released his August figures before releasing his own. Many of those *donations* were pledges and a percentage of them will never materialize or will come in too late to be of real use. Ask any eBay seller how this works. Try taking receivables to the bank when you need to raise payroll funds.
For the past 3 campaigns, the donks have outraised and outspent the pubbies. They lost the first two of those. I think they will lose this one.
How many of those donors are really laundered funds from Pakistan and the Middle East?
I think Anti -US
He will need at least twice as much as McCain because he spent twice as much cash as Hillary to even barely beat her.
I am not interested in how much the Messiah has collected, but how much is contributed by foreign muslim sources. How does he keep track of the source of the money that he collects using the Internet?
How does one go about insuring that he remains legal?
“$456,000,000”
Damn, that’s a lot of wine and cheese!
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