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McCain Raises $47 Million In August

The McCain campaign announces that he's raised a whopping $47 million in August -- the first time that he's racked up Obama-like fundraising totals.

The secret to McCain's success? Sarah Palin, who apparently generated some $10 million in donations since the announcement that she'd been picked, suggesting that social conservatives are now reassured by her candidacy.

McCain's huge haul -- roughly double his pull in past months -- also strongly suggests that GOP donors have grown much more bullish on his chances in the past few weeks, probably because of the stepped-up aggressiveness of McCain's attacks on Obama and the persistent tightness of the race in polls.


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wow, this campaign is full of lies and suprises. what's next?

Can McCain still opt-out of public money?

After all the sadness that was brought to GOPers after Obama opted out. I think they would be upset, that they would leave the republican party if mccain opts out.

Video: McCain Acts Presidential…Finally

Poll: Obama/Biden Take Eight-Point Lead

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Sept. 1, 2008


Read more here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/01/opinion/polls/main4405106.shtml

Also any primary money he has left on hand come Thursday he simply has to donate to the RNC right? Meaning they can just use it in attack ads for him.

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Jonze: "Obama says he can walk on water. The problem with this is that means he must not be able to swim."

: )

Yawn.

LOL. Well done CT.

Alaska's Polar Bear Community Speaks Out.


Upon being asked for a reaction to the news that Sarah Palin is soon to become a grandmother, a spokesperson for the Alaskan Polar Bear community said:

This is the last straw. We are all doomed. The Palin family birthrate is going to have them spreading into our last remaining living space. We are working on an emergency evacuation plan to escape the ravages of Hurricane Sarah.

At their current fertility rate, we project that within a decade, The Palin family vote will be a majority of all Alaskan voters, and we realize that Sarah Palin will then take over the entire state, and declare the Independent nation of Oilaska.

There is no way that Empress Sarah will allow we Polar Bears to survive her reign. She is a ravenous carnivore that no Carribou, Moose or Polar Bear is safe from. All she talks about is turning us into stews and sausages.

We swear, that woman would make a stew out of the hind legs of the Lamb of God.

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I do adore you so!

That's lovely - lolololol!!!!

I suspect Barack's going to have much more than that on the order of 60 or more.

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Off topic:  Just got a text message from the Obama campaign asking supporters to donate $5 to the Red Cross by texting the word GIVE to 24357.  Alternatively, you can give more by calling (would that be voicing?) 800-435-7669.

Yes, the "tightening national polls".

How about the one just released by CBS News showing Obama/Biden with an 8 point lead.

And this is before Juno-gate.

Things that make you wtf

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Isn't this a little quick to be releasing fundraising numbers? August ended yesterday, after all.

Methinks they're trying to distract from another story...

http://strategy08.wordpress.com

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Hmmmmm. What other story would that be?

Does anybody know the answer to Jonze's question above? Does this money just go into RNC coffers by Thursday?

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They're releasing the numbers now... before they're hit with a Tsunami of citizens who want their money back!

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Exactly! Especially when they find out the money they donated is going to the wedding gift registry for Bristol Palin.

That money doesn't do them any good after this week. They opted into public finance.

http://pufferfish.typepad.com/

And before "Palin as director of Ted Stevens 527-gate", and before "Palin going to be deposed under oath regarding Trooper-gate", and before "Bridge to Nowhere-gate, and "roads to nowhere-gate" and before people realize that Palin wants to force women to keep their babies even in cases of rape and incest, and want creationism taught in schools, and before learning that as Mayor of Wasilla she hired a federal lobbyist to funnel more earmark "pork" to her city, and before she left Wasilla, a town of >7000 people a debt of $20M, and how as Mayor she fired to long time city employees because they backed her political rival suring the campaign.

But hey, her 17 yr old daughter is pregnant, in case you didn't hear.

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You know I"m getting offended now. This is not irrelevant - her hypocrisy is. If she wasn't who she is and didn't advocate what she advocates, this would be trash.

But it's not and I"m really tired of being told otherwise.

It's getting way chauvinistic, frankly.

I thought we came to the understanding yesterday that you'd simply see my avatar and skip the post?

It is more than her daughter getting pregnant. It is the kind of person/parent Sarah is. Here is an interesting blog post I found. Don't know if it is true or not, but it sounds authentic.

http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/off-to-the-land-of-palin/#comments

Re: babygate - I don’t know what’s being reported. Here, however, is the truth. Trig is Sarah and Todd’s baby.

When Sarah first learned she was pregnant, it was shocking and overwhelming. While she and Todd had not planned to have anymore children, it is common knowledge among their family and friends that neither of them ever surgically insured that they wouldn’t have any “late in life” surprises/blessings.

This, to me, showed a disturbing lack of judgement. If you want to ask the citizens of a state to let you run the state for four years, to me she and Todd should have thought ahead and determined that the possibility of an unplanned pregnancy wouldn’t have been prudent for either the child, their family, their extended family (who are the ones who end up helping them raise their current four children) or the citizens of the state.

They either didn’t think this through, or didn’t care. Not sure. But, either way, to me and to others, it was a lack of foresight and judgement.

But it is the same vein - this lack of judgement - Sarah showed, on the campaign trail for governor, when asked who would raise her children should she win, she promptly stated that Todd would quit his job and stay at home with the kids (Todd works a “Slope” week on/week off schedule).

Sarah was elected and then - whoops. Todd didn’t like the stay at home gig - so Sarah, citing they needed money for the kid’s college (even though Track enlisted in the military) said Todd was returning to work. When asked about her statements on the campaign trail about how Todd would quit his job, Sarah said she’d actually never talked to him about what they would do if she was elected (in terms of his employment) and that she’d spoken out of turn when she spoke for him stating he’d quit his job.

Again, call me picky, but this is the kind of bizarre judgement Sarah routinely displays. Are you kidding me that she would run for governor and she and her husband would somehow not think to have a conversation about what to do with their four school aged kids? That’s insane. So, either her judgement is super goofy, or she wasn’t telling the truth. Either way, it’s not reassuring to now think this is someone who would be one 72 year old heartbeat away from having to call shots for the country/world.

So Todd trots himself back to work and Sarah is busy traipsing around the state and the nation. The kids are “farmed out” (this is the word used by thier associates in “the Valley”) to family and friends to raise while Todd and Sarah are off having their respective careers (Sarah is famously quoted as saying, “My mom does whatever I need her to”).

During this period is when Bristol, Sarah’s sixteen year old daughter, turns up pregnant. So, it’s kind of interesting to note that the Republican Vice Presidential Nominee and her sixteen year old junior in high school unwed daughter were carrying babies at the same time. Once Bristol’s condition became more obvious this summer, she was whisked out of sight and hasn’t been seen in public until yesterday in Ohio. This is why Trig’s blanket was strung across her entire abdomen and torso, but, when she walked down the stairs from the stage, in a profile shot, it was very clear to see she is well into her third trimester of her pregnancy.

It has come out in the past couple of days that she and her high school boyfriend had a quickie wedding and that she is home schooling her senior year.

The Anchorage Daily News has known about this for months - and haven’t touched the story. But I can’t imagine the national press or the Democratic Party will be as willing to turn a blind eye.

For me, once again it speaks to judgement. We all - every single one of us - even Sarah’s closest friends in the Valley (I know, I’ve been speaking to them) know she is in no way qualified for this position. At all.

Well, they can spend it on the PLDF- Palin Legal Defense Fund

McCain's money is always thanks to a woman.

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Rightly said!

From the Kitchen Tables Of John McCain:

My Friends,

Look over there;

Keep your eyes on My Campaign Donations Bumb.
Keep your eyes on My National Polling Bumb.

Do not look at the Baby Bumb!

McCAIN/FAILIN' 2008BC

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Intrade has number running for Palin going down. And it's nearly 97%.

The Obamabot internet army is courting some seriously bad karma.

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O my gaw! O guys, he's right. We're all doomed and we've doomed Obama!

o my gaw!


grow up, maksutov66.


WE ARE SO DOOOOOOMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDD

McWar is ready to buy his own house!!!

Seriously, it is time for Obama to go back in the news cycle...

Maybe an unexpected endorsement would be the final blow...

WE ARE SO DOOOOOOMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDD

McWar is ready to buy his own house!!!

Seriously, it is time for Obama to go back in the news cycle...

Maybe an unexpected endorsement would be the final blow...

Late Saturday night at a billiard parlor in Anchorage: now we know who that young woman was who went tearing through the place repeatedly yelling "Who wants to get married?"

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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!


I know I'm wrong for saying this...but the MSM is only going to focus on Gustav today so the impact of today's Palin developments (baby-gate, head of steven's pac, Dukasis like moment(no abortion even if own daugther was raped) probably will be minimal.

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Not much Gustav news, storm seems to be milder than Katrina. And nothing exciting coming from the convention.

McCains fundraising numbers are useless.......He has accepted public financing. HE cant spend 47 million in 3 days

So he's going to spend $47 million in three days?

Greg - Can you let us know what becomes of the leftover primary money after Thursday?

Does the money have to be returned to the donors if not used by the end of the convention?

What they just said. I thought public financing meant he had to give it back.

Exactly. What is he going to do with $47m when he goes on public dole on Thursday?

I recall Kerry had TONS of primary money left over that just had to sit there.

Exactly. What is he going to do with $47m when he goes on public dole on Thursday?

I recall Kerry had TONS of primary money left over that just had to sit there.

It's not that he can't spend the money after Thursday. It's that he can't raise any more directly for his campaign. If people want to donate money to the Republican presidential campaign, they'll have to give to the RNC.

Has anyone seen the video of Cindy McCain explaining Gov. Palin's National Security Experience. The link is to the clip on my site. You've got to see it.

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