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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (27272)	5/2/2008 2:38:19 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

The highest disapproval rating in the history of the Gallup poll going back to FDR suggests I am correct. Another dumb statement.... Even if only 5% of voters supported Bush...it would not be the "entire nation" having "buyers' remorse" as you suggest.... Try not to sound like such a partisan hack for a change.....

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (27272)	5/2/2008 2:44:57 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224744

Time to unlock your vault, Kenneth. RNC raises more funds than the DNC: >DNC coffers dry amid flood of Dem cash By DAVID PAUL KUHN \| 5/2/08 The DNC is unable to take advantage of an extremely favorable fundraising environment because the party’s presidential candidates have vacuumed so much cash out of donors. In an election year marked by jaw-dropping Democratic fundraising, one key political player isn’t so flush: The Democratic National Committee. Despite record hauls by Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the DNC has raised less than half the amount taken in by the Republican National Committee. According to the latest Federal Election Commission reports filed through the end of March, the RNC had $31 million in cash on hand, while the DNC had only $5.3 million. The RNC has raised $36.5 million this year, while the DNC has raised $17.7 million. The story was equally grim in 2007, when the RNC raised a total of $83 million to the DNC’s $50 million. “The general election has started; we should be raising $15 million a month,” said one senior DNC official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The committee is raising less than $6 million each month. “It’s a little nuts that we are spending so much money fighting each other instead of Republicans,” the official continued. “We should be doing things that start defining McCain our way instead of his way. And if we had more money we could do more.” The problem, it seems, isn’t that the DNC is doing any worse at this point than in previous presidential years. Rather, the DNC is unable to take advantage of an extremely favorable fundraising environment because the party’s presidential candidates have vacuumed so much cash out of donors. The extended nature of the contest — no other modern presidential race has seen one party’s primary remain seriously contested so long while the other’s concluded so rapidly — hasn’t helped the DNC either. “We deserve a lot of credit that we are trying to do what we can with what we got,” said Karen Finney, the DNC’s communications director, who noted that Democratic donors tend to be candidate-driven, as opposed to the more institutional-oriented donors who give year-round, even in the off-cycle years, to the RNC. In the past week, the DNC began its first efforts to define McCain — a three-week, half-million-dollar ad buy on the cable networks. But few party strategists expect the relatively meager offensive to make a dent in the consciousness of the voting public. “If you want to do something meaningful with voters to affect more than elite opinion, you have to open up a large-scale media campaign in battleground states,” said Tad Devine, the chief strategist for 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry. At the moment though, the DNC lacks the resources to do so. It has focused its efforts on building a massive voter file and national ground team, rather than advertising. “If we had more money, would we do more?” said one DNC official. “Absolutely.” Among other things, the fundraising gap has left the Democrats’ “coordinated fund” on empty. While FEC regulations allow for $19.2 million in coordinated campaign operations between the party and the presidential campaign, the party has yet to direct any money into that pot. The RNC’s is already fully funded.<