” Freds no 3 and has $7 mil on hand at the end of 3rd QTR, Rudy’s no 1 at $17 mil, and Mitts number 2 at 9 mil.
So how do you get “he hasn’t been a successful fundraiser” from those numbers? “
You left Paul out of those numbers, so Thompson isn’t #3 in fundraising.
Mitt has all the money he needs and doesn’t need to raise a cent.
Where is the 7 million number from anyway? Source?
Other posters said he was raising 100k a day, but he raised $225k in the last 7. Do the math.
Fred himself said he needed to raise more money for SC. He isn’t even sure he can do it.
“If we can raise the money sufficient to hold our own on television, we will win South Carolina and we will be in good shape,” Thompson told Wolf Blitzer.
IF WE CAN RAISE THE MONEY.... WE WILL BE IN GOOD SHAPE.
I like Fred better than the other CFR-approved candidates, but it’s a comment on the sad state of the GOP that he’s losing to a huckster, a flip-flopper, a Rockerfeller RINO, and McQueeg. Paul even has 2x his numbers in New Hampshire. Fred is on the record hoping for a distant third!
That fundraiser started at 4PM on Friday. He had $200K by yesterday at 4.
Fred himself said the money has been coming in faster since Iowa and even faster since Saturday’s debate.
source is opensecrets.org http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/
Thompson needs to have continuing funding for the primaries past SC and beyond.
His cash on hand as of the end of the 3rd quarter puts him in third place behind Rudy and Romney. We don't know what his funding level is at the end of the 4th Qtr. It should be on opensecrets.org shortly.
That's why I asked you who told you he was low on funds. I thought you had some inside info.
So the fact he said he "needed to raise more funds to be competitive in SC" doesn't necessarily mean he's running low. You inferred that.
It could be that he want's to maintain sufficient cash on hand to carry him beyond SC. A money management thing. Or you could infer as you did that he's running on fumes.
We will know shortly.