I think that the Obama wedding registry thing is odious and preposterous. However, the number you show below aren't at all a reasonable picture of the money race. Obama started out with a decent amount of money in the bank from the last election. He's also been able to raise money toward the general election for a longer period than Romney has because Obama didn't have a contested primary. Donors are allowed to give once toward the primary and then once again toward the general election but are only able to give toward the general once the nominee has been ordained by the party (which, oddly enough, doesn't have anything to do with the convention where they are formally nominated).
Obama has more money in the bank. However, the campaign spent more than they raised during the last reporting cycle. I still think he'll do comparably in the fundraising scheme of things. Romney still stands to get a giant boost from PAC spending. It's all odious to me and I want the whole campaign financial system tossed out the door. None the less, until it is, we should be more careful about understanding and saying how it really works, not some partisan snapshot of a half-truth. Cheers, Judah On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 2:55 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > I swear, this conversation is going exactly the same way as the one on > Facebook... > > Craig Keith Romney has Wall Street's billions behind him already, so he > doesn't have to be so creative. If dollars were votes Mitt has won already! > 5hours ago via mobile ยท Like > > C. Hatton Humphrey Sorry Craig but the numbers don't bear out to what > you're saying. According to > http://fec-political-candidates.findthedata.org/compare/3989-4052/Obama-Barack-vs-Romney-MittObama > has raised almost $300 million to Romney's $170 million. Even when > you figure in the Super PAC spending where Romney has $57 million to > Obama's $13 million, there is still a distinct fiscal advantage to the > incumbent. > > Until Later! > C. Hatton Humphrey > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com > On Jun 23, 2012 5:51 PM, "Vivec" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Super Pacs, giving the GOP the election. >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:352224 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
