Dem Committees Still Lead In Total Cash, Despite Surge For RNC
The fundraising figures for April show that the Democratic party committees continue to dominate in total cash-on-hand, despite a surge of support for the Republicans as they settled on John McCain as their nominee.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee out-raised the National Republican Congressional Committee for the month, with $5 million for the DCCC to $4.2 million for the NRCC. The real edge is in cash-on-hand -- the DCCC has $45.3 million on hand, compared to only $6.7 million for the NRCC, an advantage that will have big ramifications this Fall.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee just edged out the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the month, at $4.3 million to the DSCC's $4.2 million. However, the DSCC maintains a cash-on-hand advantage of $37 million to the NRSC's $19.4 million.
The only good area for the GOP is the Republican National Committee, which has vastly outdraised the DNC. The RNC took in $20 million for the month, compared to only $4.8 million for the DNC. And the RNC now has a cash advantage of $41 million against the DNC's $4.4 million.
Howard Dean's 50-State Strategy of party-building, while effective in many ways, has had the downside of the DNC not raising an awful lot of money for itself. In addition, the RNC also has an advantage of being able to court big-money donors who want to go above and beyond any limits in donating to John McCain as the official Republican nominee, while the Democratic fundraising game is still very much a battle between the Obama and Clinton campaigns.
Comments (11)
Once the dust settles and Obama is official, I'll send a few the DNC's way. Not a minute before.
May 22, 2008 12:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
THIS?
May 22, 2008 12:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
the RNC has $41 million, and the DNC only has $4.4 million
but the you gotta figure that Obama has been collecting better than a million a day since February 1st, and most of that is in donations under $200
so who cares about the DNC account
May 22, 2008 3:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
BHO has only 9 mil for the GE, HRC has 80 mil for the GE as you smartnicks all know the Primary money and the GE money is all different and cannot be mixed. How's ya mommy now?
May 22, 2008 8:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary will have to return the $80 mil, many of those big ticket donors will send it Obama's way, the small-time donors like me will continue to send the funds on our just-in-time delivery plan. Mommy's just fine.
May 22, 2008 8:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
The dems would be flush with cash if they didn't waste it on the clintons' nonsense since February. She lost the nomination in February and it was a done deal. However, as opposed to accepting reality the clintons chose to tear down the nominee and tear the party apart. Between Clinton and Obama they have spent at least 100 million on going after each other as opposed to going against republicans. Thanks clintons for wasting all that money for nothing except your egos.
May 22, 2008 8:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
DEMs also still lead in literacy, intelligence, freedom, class, grace, nipple rings, ACLU memberships, . . .
May 22, 2008 9:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
To Michael A.:
I blame the Obama Campaign for foolishly not realizing that Hillary Clinton would make the better President, and just REFUSING to stop campaigning in spite of all appeals to reason! Selfish, selfish, selfish!!
As many have already deduced, Michael, this extended primary battle has been EXCELLENT news for the Democratic Party.
It has resulted in record turnouts, record shifts to Democratic from GOP and Independent, record monies contributed to Dem causes, record participation not just in Primaries and caucuses, but in special elections and in issue-identification and grassroots building, strengthening, and extending.
The only dismay is among Obama supporters, who want to stop the voting while their candidate is temporarily ahead.
When the eventual nominee is decided, SHE will know what to do to keep Dem momentum going strong.
May 22, 2008 9:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Couple of points:
1. Keep drinking the kool-aid.
2. I guess you didn't study addition in elementary school.
3. We've had a liar-in-chief for 8 years, we don't need another one for 4 more years.
4. Dems could have been motivating voters and setting up ground organizations in all 50 states over the last 3 months anyway and at the same time taking on the republicans.
5. She is driving a wedge through the democratic party and lying to her supporters for three months for nothing. Is she running for 2012?
May 22, 2008 10:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
1. Thanks, I have a big glass right here.. Uh-OH---It's got OBAMA stencilled on it!! No, I will stay in the reality-based part of the Democratic Party, thank you, not the Obama cultists.
2. I have a degree in Engineering and am comfortable with tensor calculus. I can count in 16 different number bases, including hexadecimal, and they all say the same thing: Obam FAILED TO WIN the number of delegates he needed to put him over the top.
3. I agree. That is why I will not support Obama. Vapid slogans and empty rhetoric are not what I am looking for.
4. Dems have been waiting breathlessly in every state to have a chance to cast their vote in support of their candidate. Why do you want to take that away from them?
5. Obama is the one driving a wedge through the Democratic Party and lying to us. He is busy now installing HIS advisers at the DNC, trying to make sure all contributions and message flow though HIS organization, and trying to pretend HE is the nominee!
He has alienated fully half the Democratic Party by pissing off every Hillary supporter, and the polls show his support is deep, but very narrow. I don't think he can beat even McCain in November.
May 22, 2008 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Grrrrrr woof woof woof grrrrrrrr woof woof.
I know some Hillary supporters are just not going to get over it, all that argle-bargle is alive and well at hillaryis44.com
However, those of us who are tired of the Republikans are going to support and vote for Obama. He has the delegates, he has the machine, and he is an excellent first step back from insanity.
Hillary was way down my list of choices this year, but if she had won the primary, I would have voted for her, if only to keep the Supreme Court from going all the way to the right.
Oh, and just because you brought it up, the definition of "cult":
Main Entry:
cult
Function:
noun
Usage:
often attributive
Etymology:
French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate —
[snipped 1-4]
5 a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
b: the object of such devotion
c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
Hmmm, probably not a good word to use.
June 15, 2008 10:47 AM | Reply | Permalink