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dare I say it: folksiness

Maybe the mods need to ban the word "folksy". Seriously, I've never read it so many times in my life and every libmedia Fred article has it. Fred has charm but I think it kind of denigrates him to call him 'folksy' constantly. I think it is a deliberate slighting by libmedia. Will Rogers was "folksy", Mark Twain was "folksy". But you'd never elect either one president. I think that's why libmedia is pounding the whole "folksy" thing so hard. And no doubt, they'll use it to play a populist card against him as well and try to start calling him a William Jennings Bryant or something like that.

In other fundraising news, I did read one report that Richardson had a one-week fundraising challenge ending tonight for ONE...MILLION...DOLLARS (shades of Dr. Evil). But reports are that he succeeded in less than a week. I think Richardson's antiwar stance has drawn the antiwar vote and money to him, especially given how pro-war the other Dim candidates have become lately.

Edwards may yet fail having taken ten days (last reported at $921,000 since yesterday at noon and apparently stalled there). I expect at the last minute, they'll just shuffle money around and falsely report they made the million so they can brag about it. Or Edwards will get some trial lawyer buddies to finish the total and he'll slip the money back to them some other way.

Of course, Edwards has committed to taking matching funds for his campaign. So the very best way to harm the Dims would be to find ways to help Edwards get the nomination. The $76M restriction on the general election campaign if you take public funding would virtually doom him, no matter who we ran.

Looks like Hitlery and Obama will both raise around $20M in 3Q. Very strong money for both of them. And Obama has an absolutely huge number of contributors, maybe the largest in both parties.

Looking at the Richardson blog site, it looks like he's going to take matching funds too.

Not sure if they have to take matching funds in the general if they take them in the primary though. I thought so before but I haven't seen it stated definitively yet. So Edwards or Richardson might be able to get the nomination via matching funds campaigns and then eschew them for the general.