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Obama wedding registry fund-raising strategy not a hit with brides (a total flop)
New York Post ^ | July 16, 2012 | Chuck Bennett and Gerry Shields

Posted on 07/16/2012 7:03:40 AM PDT by Zakeet

President Obama’s bizarre marriage-theme fund-raising scheme — where he asks couples to request campaign donations from their guests in lieu of wedding gifts — has been a total flop.

The desperate initiative, dubbed “the Event Registry,” is being mocked by event planners and couples — and shows how desperate the Obama campaign is to keep up with GOP contender Mitt Romney’s fund-raising.

Campaign officials launched the initiative in late June, the same month Obama raised just $71 million compared to Romney’s $100 million.

So far, “the Event Registry” has been all but ignored on social-media sites — even though Facebook, Twitter and other networks have been a strong suit for the Obama campaign.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012election; bho2012; blunders; campaign; dncstrategy; fundraising; lackluster; lackluster2012; obamalostin2012; registry
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To: Zakeet

As of July 2nd, the Obama campaign and affiliates has raised $471,400,000. The Romney campaign comes in at $264,223,126. Yet if major labor union promises are fulfilled, President Obama will be the main beneficiary of the more than $400 million labor leaders have promised to spend electing Democrats in 2012.

If only 15 percent of that money is directed towards Obama’s campaign, that pushes his above total over $530 million, giving him a 2-1 spending edge over Romney. Thus, President Obama’s lament that he cannot win if he is being “outspent” is revealed to be utterly disingenuous.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/obamas-campaign-spending-deficit-lies/


21 posted on 07/16/2012 7:59:46 AM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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22 posted on 07/16/2012 8:05:52 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: rawcatslyentist
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23 posted on 07/16/2012 8:08:50 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: listenhillary

He’s running that “Romney Bain Outsourced Jobs” lying ad of his all weekend on cable. I think I even saw it during yesterday’s NASCAR race on TNT.


24 posted on 07/16/2012 8:14:33 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Ronald Reagan: "our liberal friends....know so much that isn't so...")
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To: Zakeet

id be curious to find out how many people were stupid enough to contribute


25 posted on 07/16/2012 8:30:36 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: sunny48
If one needed any more proof that it is "all about me" for this Narcissist in Chief, this is it.

Make your wedding, the most special day of your life about this South side Chicago thug masquerading as an intellectual and pretending to care.

50% of our populace is brain dead--drowned in the years of brain washing by govt. schools and media. If they had two brain cells to rub together, they would see thru the lies and blue smoke.

vaudine

26 posted on 07/16/2012 8:37:17 AM PDT by vaudine
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To: musicman
and of course we mustn't forget to use the blood bank to transfer cash-for-blood payments to bammy's campaign.

Give Blood For Bammy's Campaign.

27 posted on 07/16/2012 8:39:53 AM PDT by Eastbound (3-7-77)
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To: Zakeet

Professional moochers seeking the next handout. The communities of illiterates he organized will undoubtedly send him more.


28 posted on 07/16/2012 8:45:43 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Old Sarge

Heh heh heh....
Good to see you, Sarge!


29 posted on 07/16/2012 9:02:25 AM PDT by Silentgypsy (If you love your freedom, thank a vet.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

My daughter and son-in-law are going to a Kennedy wedding next month. I guarantee you the guests are not going to give their gifts to Obama.


30 posted on 07/16/2012 9:24:02 AM PDT by surrey
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To: Zakeet

Since that didn’t work, they’re switching to funerals.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/#&lid=Death%20Notices&lpos=Sub

“In lieu of flowers, memorials in his memory to The Obama for America Campaign, www.barackobama.com”

(This was the Jewish guy who died at Baraqqi headquarters in Chicago)


31 posted on 07/16/2012 9:28:45 AM PDT by nascarnation
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