Posted on 04/04/2007 9:02:53 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
GOP Gets Swamped in Money Hunt
By: Jeanne Cummings
April 4, 2007 08:34 PM EST
In the much-watched first quarter of presidential fundraising, the Democratic candidates raised significantly more than their Republican counterparts, creating a huge gap that is putting added pressure on a party already struggling to regroup after the November elections.
According to preliminary fundraising numbers released by the campaigns this week, the combined Democratic field raised about $80 million, compared with roughly $50 million collected by their GOP adversaries.
In 1999, the last presidential race without an incumbent in the race, Republicans raised $33 million in the first quarter, compared with $13 million by the Democrats, according to the Campaign Finance Institute. The disparity was also evident in 1988, when the Republican field reported $19 million in first-quarter fundraising, compared with $3 million by the Democrats.
“It’s a big gap. It’s huge,” said one Republican insider who asked for anonymity so he could speak frankly. “We don’t need to close it in the second quarter, but we need to close it by the end of the year.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The SPLIT in the Party will just get wider and wider unless the Party nominates someone to excite and energy the base.
DINO trumps RINO
DINO attracts money
RINO does not attract money
The rudy-bots may celebrate a guliani primary victory but they will never never never win the election of the wallet.
It seems like those are the same places the GOP will have to hope to get their money from too.
I have been considering it already but in honor of your post, I am sending him a check today.
I’m supporting Mr. Giuliani, but as the primary progresses if it looks like Mr. Hunter and not Mr. Giuliani can beat Ms. Clinton...then, I will support him. The goal is to stop Ms. Clinton. Period.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_1_rudy_giuliani.html. Take a look at this by Stephen Moore to show that Rudy Guiliani is indeed a conservative.
In the month of February...
The RNC raised $7,193,876, has $10,753,132 cash on hand, and no debt.
The DNC raised $4,607,507, has $ 7,006,671 cash on hand, and $4,000,000 debt
The gap in presidential donations is a reflection of the essentially 2 way race for rat nominee. Hillary has many rich supporters and Obama is benefiting from the rats who strongly hate Clinton. The GOP has several candidates. We don't want to throw away money on a candidate who may be gone in the first primary when the other guy is just about as good.
The rat media and DNC blog trolls would love to hustle the base into thinking we've already lost 08. Freepers should not swallow the rat media load.
They called me a few weeks ago and I told the lady that I would not be donating to them until they started acting like they should be. She just said have a nice day and hung up. I noticed on my caller id that the group had called again today while I was out getting some medicine for the stomach bug I have picked up. I won’t be returning their call.
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