If this keeps up, Jennifer will have plenty of money. We’re getting close to one rec’d diary a week.
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Guess who else is raking in the dough as Sarah Palin noisily returns to the national stage: her detractors. After months of trailing Republicans in fundraising, Dems raised $11.5 million in October, a record for a non-presidential year
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Well, the news of Obama raising $150 million in September checks one prediction off my list. Only one more to go. Back in July, I told our readers this:
Obama will have a $100 million month
Obama will win in November and it won’t really be close
Remember who told ya.
One down. One to go!
Obama Bomaye!
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That wasn’t even an OPTION in our poll to the right. I had no idea that this was even possible!
Um…WOW.
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama raised more than $150 million in September, a stunning and unprecedented eruption of political giving that has given him a wide spending advantage over rival John McCain.
The Democrat’s campaign released the figure Sunday, one day before it must file a detailed report of its monthly finances with the Federal Election Commission.
Obama’s money is fueling a vast campaign operation in an expanding field of competitive states. It also has underwritten a wave of both national and targeted video advertising unseen before in a presidential contest.
Campaign manager David Plouffe, in an e-mail to supporters Sunday morning, said the campaign had added 632,000 new donors in September, for a total of 3.1 million contributors to the campaign. He said the average donation was $86.
This is stunning. October anyone?
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Official number is not out yet, but there’s this:
One official close to the campaign said that September’s fundraising haul set a new record, surpassing the $66 million Obama raised in August. Another aide, asked about the campaign’s take, would only describe it: “big.”
I’ve predicted that he’d have a $100 million month. I don’t quite think he’ll get there, but will stand by my prediction. This could be it.
Just put up a new poll. Let us know how much you think it will be.
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I just got an email from John McCain. It’s an urgent plea for contributions before the end of the month.
The reason is obvious: McCain has accepted matching funds and can’t take any more contributions after that.
The letter makes it sound like he is accepting matching funds because of some promise he made. The truth, of course, is he is such a poor candidate that he can’t even raise enough money from his own party to run a viable campaign.
But that doesn’t stop him from running with garbage like this…
“My friends, I have made many promises during this campaign – promises I intend to keep. First and foremost, I promise to put our country first, before my own self interest. I have put my country first throughout my entire life. I owe America more than she has ever owed me. ”
Listen, Mr. McCain: if you REALLY loved your country you would drop out of the race now.
If you really want to put America above your own self interest – then you should drop out now and let the country recover from the failed economic and foreign policies of our current president – policies you have embraced and promised to continue.
Or maybe you don’t love your country THAT much?
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Update: I guess the McCain camp is a bit worried about this because they pulled it from the campaign website calendar! Whoops.
The straight talking maverick is at it again. He’s skirting campaign finance laws he used to support and built his maverick appeal on. This time in Ohio. It’s a shell game, really. Though legislation limits individual contributions to $2,300, McCain and his rich friends have decided to skirt a law with his name on it by creating a financing structure in conjunction with the RNC.
Tim at Blogger Interrupted has a fundraising email nailing the McCain camp on this. They are asking couples to give $50,000. They are then telling people how to go about getting around campaign finance laws which should limit a couple to $4,600. You wanna talk about arrogance and hubris. This is taking a law that you got passed, a concept that you’ve campaigned on and staked your maverick reputation on, and completely distorting it and laughing at it. Here is what they say do:
For Individuals-The first $2,300 to JM 2008, the next $2,300 to the Compliance Fund, the next $10,000 to the Ohio Republican Party’s federal account, and the next $28,500 to the RNC.
It’s not the first time they’ve done this. Not at all. It’s been a campaign strategy in the general from word go it appears.
Elizabeth Jones at the WSJ reported on this back in April:
The idea is to tap donors for more than the $2,300 limit set by campaign finance laws. Under legislation pushed by McCain in his role as a senator from Arizona, an individual can donate a maximum of $2,300 to a presidential primary campaign and the same amount to the general election campaign…
The new structure allows up to $70,000 in individual contributions by channeling the money into different McCain-centric funds.
HuffPo wrote about it on April 21st
This “hybrid legal structure”, as campaign manager Rick Davis calls it, probably is legal under the letter (and not the spirit) of McCain-Feingold. What does appear in question is if a candidate can explicitly ask people to skirt the law in an event invitation. I think this needs to be looked at. It certainly needs to be known.
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Please direct me to the outrage among our friends on the right back in March when John McCain held fucking FUNDRAISERS while in Europe on a trip very similar to Obama’s recent one. If holding actual campaign fundraisers during a trip abroad doesn’t smack of a political – instead of fact-finding – trip I don’t know what does.
McCain’s campaign has sent out an invitation for a March 20 luncheon at Spencer House — the neo-classical home built for an ancestor of Diana, the late Princess of Wales — “by kind permission of Lord Rothschild OM GBE and the Hon. Nathaniel Rothschild.â€
The price to attend is $1000 to $2,300. And the dress code for the event? “Lounge suits†— British for business attire.
Jill Hazelbaker, McCain’s campaign spokeswoman, said today that Congress will be reimbursed for the political portions of the trip.
Cue crickets chirping from the righty blogs.
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I guess the Denver Open Convention thing worked like a charm. Genius:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign says it raised $52 million last month.
I know people who don’t have the money, but gave it anyway.
So much for the move to the center destroying his donor base. So much for WSJ reporting (unless, of course the Obama campaign leaked this in a strategy to blow numbers away – which would again be genius). So much for Kos withholding his $2,300. Don’t need it. More than 23 of us gave $100 I’m willing to bet to more than make up for his max out mattering. Kos not mattering. Imagine that.
(ht Nick D. at BSB and Tim at BI)
Also noticed ModernEsquire firmly on the O train. Life is good. Keep smilin’!
Now. About the DNC…
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The faux outrage over public financing is laughable when you remember the deal John McCain too with the devil back when he was an also-ran. Finally the Obama camp (normally timely with this type of thing), thumps Senator McCain over the head with it:
David Plouffe brought a prop to his briefing with reporter: a copy of John McCain’s signature on a state election document in which he attested that he’d be taking public financing.
“John McCain is spending tens of millions of dollars, we believe, unlawfully,’ he said, waving the document.
The details of the argument over whether McCain used an acceptable or unacceptable loophole to secure a loan with the possibility of public financing is now before a court in a DNC lawsuit and subject to the FEC’s consideration.
“John McCain signed his name, ‘John McCain,” Ploufe said. “He got on the ballot attesting he would be in the primary system.”
“They’re out there throwing stones in glass houses on this,” he said of McCain’s attacks on Obama on public financing.
Thanks David. Little quicker on the trigger next time bro. Narratives set pretty quickly nowadays…like super glue.
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Not surprising given the desperation that must have been setting in prior to North Carolina and Indiana:
One of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s top financial supporters offered $1 million to the Young Democrats of America during a phone conversation in which he also pressed for the organization’s two uncommitted superdelegates to endorse the New York Democrat, a high-ranking official with YDA told The Huffington Post.
Didn’t work.
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