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The Obama campaign is boasting of some impressive campaign figures for the month of January. On twitter, the campaign claims to have raised just over $29.1 million for the campaign, DNC and other relevant committees.
The powerful Obama fundraising apparatus, which was an important force in 2008 election, appears to be functioning very well. The Obama team will clearly have the money to be on par or to even outspend the eventual Republican nominee.
I think this is relevant because Mitt Romney’s success in the Republican primary so far has relied heavily on radically outspending his rivals. Romney and his allies won Florida but only after outspending Newt Gingrich and his allies by an incredibly five to one margin.
When the Romney campaign decided not to completely flood the zone with campaign spending in the early February states it allowed Rick Santorum to score a surprise triple win. If Romney does manage to regain the lead in Michigan it will be in part because of his team spending dramatically more in the state than Santorum can afford to.
This hugely outspending your rivals can work in the GOP primary for Romney given the pathetic fundraising of his rivals, but it is simply not going to be an option in the general when he finally facex someone with a very competent fundraising machine.
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Romney’s chief fundraiser. Scum of the earth.
AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen Jon Walker:
I don’t think any of us are really surprized at the regeneration of the Obama cash machine given the “coincidental” announcement of the opening of his super pac with the sellout mortgage fraud settlement. What I am most concerned about, however, is whether and how this largesse will be distributed to state parties and legislative candidates. In addition, the real danger here is that the administration will be able to manage lowered expectations while starvin’ out the ability of progressives to establish a broad national base in the states.
What do you see as the possibility of a 50-state like strategy funded by a national super pac established on a large small donar base?
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, NONE OF THE BASTARDS WILL GO WITHOUT A FIGHT!!
THings will be different THIS TIME. Last time Obama raised lots of money in $25 and $50 contributions. I don’t think many of those people will be contributing this time. I suspect much of his money wil be coming form those who have benefitted from his administration’s actions and inactions.
Let’s see??????? Who could that be????? It rhymes with “Done percent”.
Vote Green, Vote Jill Stein for POTUS.
“What do you see as the possibility of a 50-state like strategy funded by a national super pac established on a large small donar base?
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See my #3. I really don’t think Obama will be successful in the “small donor base” like he was before. Many of those people feel betrayed. I am democratic precinct chair here, Houston area. Although many former Obama supporters will not vote republican, they have told me they will likely NOT vote for Obama again either. And send him money…..not a chance.
The worst politicians money can buy.
Billion Buck Barack strikes again.
Congratulations to the Whore-In-Chief.
Jack Abramoff would be proud.
I think the “small donor” was more myth than reality. It was a meme the Obama campaign promoted to show he had “grass roots” appeal when actually most of his money came from the banks and the corporations.
I won’t be sending him any money or voting for him this time around either. Thinking about voting for Santorum in the Michigan open primary just to sabotage Romney’s “per-destined” coronation.
What Jest said: if this were a republican whoring himself out to big bidness and the corporate shits, we’d be all over him. With Jon, it’s:
“Isn’t Obama doing so well in the race to buy the White House!!!???”
With some of our threaders, the progressive worm is clearly turning to the “WE SUCK LESS!” cheerleading posture.
Eh, not a big deal. The corporate money Obama is receiving is good, as opposed to the evil money that his eventual opponent will be using.
Just like the bombs that Obama ordered dropped on Libya, those were caring bombs, not evil bombs.
Jon’s a reporter, not an OpEd writer. It’s his job to relay the facts and draw reasonable conclusions from available information. He covers elections, and rarely breaks form on these issues.
To flame him for doing his job is kind of whack, don’t you think?
Romney or Obysmal. Gawd!, what a choice (or non-choice). No wonder people give up.
Make mine a double (no ice).
Nice to see the Banks are loaning money again. At least they will get their money back for this one if they haven’t already. To think I worried about a economic downward spiral when it turns out Obama really does have a jobs program that actually doing well.
Well done democrats, nice to see you get something “progressive” done. If we can’t help the poor, we can at least help the rich.
Jon, I think you do an excellent job of walking that fine line, offering us news and enough opinion to make it evocative.
“Those people” like him so much, they’re donating up to $250 this time around:
“A subsequent Tweet noted that of the January donations, 98 percent were for $250 or less.”
from
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57380083-503544/obama-2012-raises-$29.1-million-in-january/
I send their fundraising SASE (they’re so considerate) back with a personal message “OCCUPY” in pretty magic marker letters (my 2 cents for free). I’m part of that 98%, the “less” part (zero for a zero).
Leave the bottle on the table.
When it’s empty please hit me over the head with it.
Mr “I love Bibi the Butcher, let’s bomb Iran” Osterity can raise all the dust he wants. Two things he won’t get from me, my money or my vote.
My vote will go to Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson or Stewart Alexander, whichever one makes it on to the FL ballot, or I’ll leave that race blank if none of them make it on to the ballot.
No, Kris, I don’t think so.
Because, I’ve listed the reasons why I think cavorting about Obama’s big “surge” is premature at best, and wrong as two left feet, at worse.
It’s also a little dishonest, in that it’s based on the same kind of talking-goody-two-shoes “isn’t he doing well?”
theme that so directly ignores all of the death and destruction that we’re sustaining in Afghanistan, and which Israel looks to be ginning up more of, with an attack on Iran.
It’s like this: putting up threads about Obama’s new popularity without taking a good hard look at WHY it’s happening (See: the GOP goat rodeo…) and also without talking about the international situation, to me, is just the start of the “flacking for Obama” that I think we’ll start seeing as we move further into the election. It is just pitching the same old “at least he’s not as bad as the republicans” stuff, and it plays right into the hands of the people/democrats who are willing to sustain the status quo.
Incidentally, as you may remember, that “strategy” got the shit kicked out of us in the mid-terms.
I’m sure the stats are faked.
Democratic registrations are currently at an all-time low. This conflicts with the notion that the little guys and gals are chipping in.
Were the donations from individuals or from corporate interests? IMO, this election is already done. PTB are very happy with O, but the worst case scenario for them is Romney, which is also a win. Win/win for the elites.
I’m still a registered D but I’m voting green party in Nov. Want to make sure I can vote against Inc.’s in primaries.
Then I’ll pick up a shard and slit my wrists :)
We’ve had months of Warren being feted as some kind of populist Joan of Arc; too pure to be criticized. If that poll is right (and I think it’s a lot more accurate than the polls showing her with a substantial lead over Brown…)
then it just points to the fact that Obama and the dems “new” popularity is a mile wide and inch deep.
You can’t talk about economic improvement without talking about the prices of the day-to-day necessities, which are going up, across the board. You can’t hide that with a bunch of new hires at McDonald’s and Hardee’s.
I”d add: trying to hide it is a VERY republican thing to do.
She lost many people when she embraced to national security bs meme. Raised a red flag of HOPE.
PTB want us to feel discouraged and defeated so we’ll check out of politics. It is in their interest to make sure we feel helpless and hopeless.
Agree, they want only the brainwashed masses to vote.
True. I’ve been saying for a while now, that if Warren wants to get elected, she’s going to have to put some distance between Obama and herself. The…bounce…that Obama’s getting from the sorry mess of the republican candidates won’t carry him, and, as others on here are noting; the economic “improvement” is specious and derived from cherry-picking the numbers, at best.
What good will it do to be making a few more bucks, or working for minimum wage, when the price of the things we need, keep going up?
FDR didn’t turn the worst economic crisis in our history around by protecting Wall Street and the bankers. The market crash was a painful “correction”, but it was a correction from the top-heavy corporatism under which we suffered. Roosevelt had the intelligence and the morality to mount the salvage operation from the bottom up. Now, it’s reversed. Obama is determined that the 1% not have to endure any meaningful belt-tightening, or, the re-regulation that we so badly need.
Talking about his improved prospects for re-election while ignoring those realities, is just more of knowing which things not to discuss, and we’ve already got too much of that from the stay-the-course bloggers.
As in the case of the GREAT depression things will have to get worse before they get better. Most caring people don’t want things to get worse so I see why they keep hoping this wolf in sheeps clothing is going to change. Money and the love of money are what is driving policy for all people of the world right now; until we start caring HOW people got rich and shaming people who cheat to get rich we are on this road IMO.
Too true, unfortunately.
We seem to be exporting the “I’ve got mine; screw you, Jack!” ethic, to the rest of the world. I mean, the possibility of it has always been part of human nature, but since we’ve been abdicating the moral high ground so diligently, it’s become a kind of international morality standard.
The notion of Obama changing and mounting a real salvage operation in a putative second term, to me, is preposterous. Whatever the outcome of the presidential race, we’ll be lucky to hang on to the Senate, and you can forget the House. The GOP is going to control the purse strings for at least another 2 years, and if Obama wins, it will be for 4 years. All of that enthusiasm and political clout that he came in with in 2008, will be so diluted that his “toolbox” is going to look like a toy facsimile that you’d give to a little kid.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see him lose very swing state that he won in 2008.
Of course, if he wins the presidency again, and loses the House (maybe, the Senate) then the stage will be set for four more years of protecting the status quo…and at this point, I’m ready to believe that he came into office with that little assignment.
“PTB want us to feel discouraged and defeated so we’ll check out of politics. It is in their interest to make sure we feel helpless and hopeless.”
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One has to begrudgingly admit they are doing one helluva job so far. Look at our president….Look at who’s running against him.
Damn…..those guys are good.
What you mean is that the “statistics are not based on actual numbers.”
I probably agree.
Refer back to #30.