On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Mark wrote:

>
> The news is full of reports about Obama's fund raising.
> He's doing better than Ron Paul. :-)
> Locally, however, the Dems are pretty cash starved.
> Is this the same where you guys live ?

Well, my district is a race that the RNC has targeted, since it  
flipped to D in '06, so a lot of money has flowed into the race, but  
the incumbent, Giffords has had no problems raising money. She's  
handily out-raised her opponent.

Apparently, the best thing that the Dems can do is let their opponents  
get on Hardball and say really stupid things.

After Michelle Bachmann's star turn channeling Joe McCarthy the other  
night, her opponent racked up nearly $800K in donations, enough to buy  
some serious TV time. His campaign has been kinda starved before that,  
though, but now it's projected as an even race.

>
> Is all the money going to Obama at the expense of regional races ?

I don't know. A huge proportion of Obama's money is coming from donors  
giving < $200...while that's been a winning strategy nationwide, it's  
hard to raise that much money that way in a congressional district,  
for instance.



-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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