Fundraising Prowess of Bush, Cheney ($104.6 Million in 15 months)

The AP via Yahoo! News ^ | March 24, 2006

[new yorker 77]

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney may be down in the polls but not in dollars raised for Republican candidates and the GOP. A look at the numbers through March 16.

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President Bush:

2005: 20 events raising $75.5 million

2006: Six events raising $12.5 million

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Vice President Dick Cheney:

2005: 36 events raising $15 million

2006: 11 events raising $1.6 million

Source: Republican National Committee

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[digger48]

Obligatory reference to media created poll numbers.

In almost every story lately.

[new yorker 77]

What are these liberals going to do when the Dems lose again in 2006?

[digger48]

They seem to be about 1-2 elections away from violence. But they're showing their true colors more and more everyday, and it doesnt sell well anywhere outside the Blue zones.

[Crawdad]

I sent the RNC some money in January. Here it is late March and they have already spent what I sent them sending me requests for more money. Jesus.

[jmaroneps37]

What is the point here?


At this point in a cycle, both men are doing fund raisers for candidates or committees having trouble raising funds. The smaller fund raisers charge say up to $500.00 per seat, even to see the President. In Washington DC or New York that same seat would cost 10,000. Besides as always we are out raising the rat by every measure.


Final point as always we will beat the rat anyway and as always he will cry about not getting his message and as always he will cry about "Rich Republicans smothering his message" and as always the rat will be lying.


As I said what's the point of this post?

[Wasanother]

This doesn't jive with the impression the MSM is trying to portray of opinions of Bush and Cheney.

[new yorker 77]

The opinions of a biased media that suppresses news that helps the President and the GOP while also using polls of an oversampling of Democrat non-voters to justify their fake news highlights is the environment where I as a conservative should cower?

I don't think so.

Winners don't cower or fret at a phantom menace of MSM fakery. We simply Win.

[Wasanother]

Just two weeks ago I was hearing about how the RNS was dissing Bush and Cheney but that seems to be another false MSM assumption.

[michael76]

Note:

President Bush
2005 20 events raised $75.5 million = $3.775 per event
2006 6 events rasied $12.5 million = $2.083 per event
per event reduction of 55% between 2005 and 2006

VP Cheney
2005 36 events raised $15 million = $416k per event
2006 11 events raised $ 1.6 Million = $136k per event
per event reduction of 68% between 2005 and 2006

What's the problem. Fat Cats losing interest?