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”Thousands and thousands of people have stepped up today and helped us raise over $100,000 in donations as small as $3.

Wonder how many of them were Democrats?

3 dollars to this guy from a Democrat is 3 bucks zero won’t get.

I fail to see a problem with that.

Wonder how many of them were Democrats?

I'd say thousands and thousands, suckers for the Huckster and a few dozen suicidal "conservatives."

> ”Thousands and thousands of people have stepped up today and helped us raise over $100,000 in donations as small as $3."
> Wonder how many of them were Democrats?

Seeing as how McCaskill was Akin's most vociferous supporter this week, begging him to stay in the race, it's likely a huge portion of those $$ are from Dems who heeded her call.

Don't forget MO has open primaries, and since McC was unopposed in hers, she asked Dems to cross-over to vote in the GOP primary for Akin. In a crowded field of 9 GOP candidates, it wouldn't have been too hard to tilt it in his favor.

Now, those same Dems and others are likely giving large numbers of teensy donations to Akin in the hope that the large number of donors will convince him his popularity is actually increasing, while the total sum of $$ will still be too small to make much difference.

Three dollars?? Gimme a break! After paying per-transaction fees to VISA and the finance website and any other vendors in the chain, there's going to be peanuts left of that $3, and I'll bet most of these "donors" are aware of that!

Much of the rest probably comes from conservatives (like many on this forum) who, after a lifetime of witnessing countless unjustifiable attacks by lefties on conservative candidates, plus fewer (but still many) unjustifiable attacks by RINOs on conservative candidates, have come to the wrong conclusion that ALL calls for a conservative to step out of a race are automatically unjustified and arising from suspicious motives.

That's the correct diagnosis *ALMOST* all of the time, but not this time. It's one of the rare instances when the calls should be heeded. The tidal wave of conservatives and/or Republicans calling for him to step down certainly *ARE* justified in this case.

I don't see this as a call for Akin to "fall on his sword for the good of the party". Rather, it's a case of him already falling on his sword all on his own, and now being asked to get off the sword and hand it over to another fighter for the cause, one who isn't terminally wounded.