[untrained skeptic]

If someone's cooking the books how could anyone tell without an audit?

I wasn't disagreeing with you on that point.

I was just trying to point out that this article completely fails to mention if fund raising is doing well for the DNC under Dean, or if their low balance could be due to their party losing it's support due to their inability to have a platform of their own that resonates with the American people rather than just opposing Bush.

I seem to have gotten into the habbit of reading media articles and looking for what is missing.

It just seems that if they are discussing how much the DNC has in the bank compared to the RNC that fund raising would be an extremely important factor, yet it's completely absent from the discussion.

[mewzilla]

I was just trying to point out that this article completely fails to mention if fund raising is doing well for the DNC under Dean, or if their low balance could be due to their party losing it's support due to their inability to have a platform of their own that resonates with the American people rather than just opposing Bush.

Without an outside audit, I wouldn't trust the answer.

[Petruchio]

I seem to have gotten into the habbit of reading media articles and looking for what is missing.

I think what is missing is the money . . .