Posted on 10/12/2018 10:32:33 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Not so long ago the administration of President George W. Bush $1 million could get you elected to Congress. Now, four weeks from Election Day, Democrats say 60 of their candidates raised that much or more, just in the last three months.
Fueled by an energetic base of small donors, Democrats are going into the final stretch of the election with a substantial financial advantage, erasing Republicans' typical fundraising edge.
The money is flowing to unlikely districts and is frequently tied to Democrats' opposition to President Trump.
In Fresno, Calif., prosecutor Andrew Janz, a Democrat, raised an eye-popping $4.1 million in the third quarter. He's out to topple an eight-term Republican, Rep. Devin Nunes, chair of the House Intelligence Committee and a staunch ally of President Trump.
Janz said his donor base is widespread. "In many parts of the country and in many parts of our state here, and even locally, people wanted this guy out of office," he said.
Other Democratic challengers have announced similarly stunning dollar amounts for the third quarter, which ran from July 1 to Sept. 30. Sharice Davids, in an eastern Kansas district, raised $2.7 million. Amy McGrath, in central Kentucky, raised $3.65 million. Elissa Slotkin, in southern Michigan, raised $2.6 million.
Good and bad news for Republicans
Spending numbers compiled by the Congressional Leadership Fund, a GOP super PAC aligned with House Republicans, and obtained by NPR, offer Republicans some good news and some bad news.
The good: The Congressional Leadership Fund has spent $90 million on the general-election campaign, versus $51 million by its Democratic rival, the House Majority PAC.
The bad news: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC, has outspent the NRCC $64 million to $47 million.
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Ask Jeb about this.
This November is going to be so satisfying... :)
[lie] Fueled by an energetic base of small donors, [/lie]
Jeb! (please clap) also dropped a big bundle.
Probably a very minor point, only me, in fact...but I haven’t seen a single political ad this year...mainly because I don’t watch commercial TV anymore...especially the news.
You can spend a gazillion dollars on ads, but if no one watches, only the media reaps the windfall.
Well, that's what I read.
Add in Soros money, Hollywood money, Wall Street money and foreign money.
Funny though, Democrats never mention what the average donation is. That’s probably because they receive so little campaign donations from the rank and file. On the other hand, most Republican money does come from the rank and file.
Cash is nice...in this case it is not king, nor can it manufacture one.
It will be a red wave in both houses.
The media is hurting the Dems...yes, hurting. They jump a new shark almost daily and only the angry Prius and Fit owners watch these. They lose Dems in blue collar union areas daily to PDJT. Blacks have a favorability rating of PDJT like 30+. Each race Larry posts news about has R about 7-10 pts.
The cash may be used to gen votes, like interring grave sites, busing in illegals, or reprogramming Soros-paid Diabold machines, but we have better oversight and exposure of the Left’s legalities now.
One anecdotal evidence play is apathy...our side is fired up. I drive all around for my business. Wwwaaayyy more Republican signs in yards now...during 2004, 2008, 2012, 2014, many Dem signs, nearly equal. In urban areas, signs are scant in Cincinnati proper...on my street, not even a single sign. I live in the city.
Even before Kavanaugh, we were fired up.
GenX, baby boomers will still vote on left...millennials, not so much. Turnout will be down on the Left.
Red wave. Just to piss off the Left, I’ll call it a red tide.
Yeah, they have a lot of $5 and $25 donors from their hippie free stuff base which makes up 10-15% of the total and the remaining 85-90% from billionaires like Steyer, Soros and Bloomberg.
Tell me again how they are the party of the little guy.
Wow this is dangerous!! You remember how Soros’ money bought the 2010 and 2014 House elections and he used his money to buy the White House for Hillary Clinton right? Oh you don’t, well neither do I.
Money gets you on the stage but if the audience doesn’t like the song you are singing it doesn’t mean a thing. Ask former presidents Perot and Forbes about that.
Fresno is an area with HUGE numbers of illegals.
Voter Fraud is the rising tide, people.
$$$$$ don’t mean S#!t. Its the message that gets the vote. Of course the $$$$ can be used to buy votes, but its no guarantee.
If spending guaranteed victory, Hillary would be POTUS. The message is bad. The people are bad. And Trump keeps drawing thousands to his rallies. The experts said that crowd size didn’t matter in 1948, either, and that Dewey was certain to beat Truman. Crowd spirit and size matters a whole lot. So does the message and the candidates.
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