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<< Banning Books in North Carolina | Main | Kerry Dares GOP to Indict Clarke >> March 26, 2004No Bush Financial Advantage?I've never been impressed by fears of Bush's fundraising advantage, since I assumed that grassroots energy and volunteers, combined with 527 money, would at least keep us in the game. But some financial counts indicate that Kerry and allies may be able to match Bush on the dollar-to-dollar level: One of the things that most terrifies the Republicans is the advent of Democratic-friendly 527's like ACT and The Media Fund. Bloomberg totaled the funds of the candidates, their national party committees, and their main 527 allies. The 527 reports are only current through the end of 2003, and the Democratic leaning 527's should haul in much more money the their Republican leaning counterparts. Nevertheless, the Democratic total of $309.8 million almost matches the Republican total of $313.6 million.Don't relax, but any despair over being outspent by the GOP may be quite misguided. Posted by Nathan at March 26, 2004 06:11 PM Related posts:
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsWe cannot relax and we should also consider the timing. The advantage the Republican smear machine has is that it can spend early, while were still working to raise $$ in key states. Posted by: Aimie at March 27, 2004 12:03 AM Those total numbers appear to include all the money the dems used to beat each other up during the primary. Not exactly reflective of what's going into JFK vs Bush... Posted by: Abe at March 27, 2004 01:48 AM Abe, you're right that this sum includes the money used for the primary, but my memory seems to indicate that the primary contest at seven guns trained at Bush for every gun trained at a Democrat. Therefore, it does indicate some money was directly used for anti-Bush purposes. Additionally, Kerry has the advantage in that there are a bunch of donors out there who did not donate to him but are most likely ABB (1st preference not Kerry but cool enough) who can relatively easily be convinced to donate to Kerry. He is seeing that with the 20 million in 20 days routine. Posted by: fester at March 29, 2004 07:30 AM 3376 Get your online poker fix at http://www.onlinepoker-dot.com Posted by: online poker at August 15, 2004 09:20 PM Post a comment
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