Posted on 09/18/2015 7:51:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In theory, Carly Fiorina should be one of the best fundraisers in the Republican field.
She was the breakout star in CNN's Republican debate on Wednesday, the second straight contest in which she's distinguished herself. She's the former CEO of a major company and she's well-connected in donor-rich California.
But she has a problem: The money hasn't followed the hype -- yet.
"Buzz tends to turn on the money spigot, and she's clearly getting a lot of buzz out of last night," said Kenneth Kies, a longtime Republican bundler and lobbyist. "But it's probably not enough to fuel the tank to get you through to February."
Buoyed by two consecutive widely praised debate performances, Fiorina is expected to surge in the next round of public opinion surveys. But party insiders say her next challenge will be to convert that goodwill into hard dollars that can drive votes come next winter
Despite her deep connections to the conservative movement in Washington and to the moneyed class of Silicon Valley, Fiorina's campaign had only $1 million on hand as of this summer (roughly the same amount as Rick Perry, who has since dropped out of the race due to financial problems.) The former Hewlett-Packard executive took in about $1.7 million in the first two months of her campaign, less than every other Republican candidate she shared the stage with on Wednesday....
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She would make a great carnival barker
The RNC might decide to urge the Puppet Masters to switch from Yeb to Horseface, which will change the funding picture. Or maybe fund both of them for awhile.
Have polls been put out since the debate? I don’t mean “who was the debate winner” types, but the state and national polls?
I think if she gets a significant bump in them, money might start coming in.
QVC Electronics with Carly Fiorina.
She is getting her ego filled by having the GOPe, Democrats and press using her right now in the War-On-Donald.
She has a vagina, they need to see if that can take Donald down, then like Carson she will be forgotten for Jeb Bush, the chosen loser.
I will give carly credit for one thing... She got trump to tell his first lie when he said she is beautiful.
First item up for sale..... Overstock compaq computers
Reince Preibus chose a pretty ridiculous candidate to be thw RNC’s attack dog. At this rate, they will be resorting to assassins to stop the Cruz/Trump train, because not even ignorant Republicans are buying the RNC’s garbage.
She probably was beautiful ... before the Beatles were famous.
She is over-acclaimed. Just what is Presidential about saying women will remember what Trump said and then was unable to respond to Trump’s rejoinder that she is beautiful. It’s not only her face that she should talk about.
They’ve done the assassin thing before.
The GOPe’s Shillary. She’s going nowhere.
Watch for the RNC to implement some sort of campaign finance leveler scheme like Robin Hood. Well off candidates have to share with the ones that do not do well to level the playing field. Political affirmative action.
Seems to me you’re right on.
Isn’t that how she got into the main debate without the proper polling numbers?
I don’t see that happening since their guy Bush has a lot of the dough.
I didn’t say it would be on the up and up. The rules are their rules.
Everytime I watch an old western now, with horses on it, I think of Fiorina. Horse face named Secretariat...
>> She would make a great carnival barker
OK, knock it off with the dog jokes. She’s a beautiful woman.
:-)
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