Dean's DNC fundraising breaks record
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Kos:
Dean has already surpassed McAuliffe's vaunted presidenital-cycle [fund-raising totals]. Period. And [the totals will] only get better.There is a paucity of "cash on hand" and/but it's hard to say why.Dean has started rebuilding the state parties -- something DC Democrats could care less about (considering they never bothered trying to do it before).
And as to establishment and DLC fears that Dean would be an electoral disaster for Dems? Two words:
2005 elections. 'Nuff said.
All in all, Dean is part of the solution, not part of the problem, as some in the MSM are reporting.
I loved Russert Sumday trying to imply to Dean that he was in trouble cuz the GOP was ahead of them. Hell, aren't they always?
I saw that too. I couldn't figure out why Dean didn't just point out that the GOP is the party representing the interests of the rich. Go figure.
He'd have to back it up somehow. How? He could start by showing that the average donation per person is lower for the Democrats versus the Republicans...if that is true. I have no idea if it is.
Better he should just point out what Kos pointed out -- that he's ahead of the game compared to last year.
P.S. Russert is a putz.
"He'd have to back it up somehow. How?"
How 'bout a short synopsis of five years of Republican policy-making and the upward redistribution of wealth? Follow the money.
Right! Actually focus on the stagnation of median income.
More fun to focus on Russert being a putz.
More detail: DNC Officials estimate that $12 million of the $14 million the Dean regime has collected so far this year has come from those who gave less than $250.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/6/12/202451/386
So the millionaire donors are on the way out. Maybe that's why they don't like Dean either. And don't get me started on the lobbyists -- they cut the Dems dead when they went with the Republican K Street project; now the lobbyists are complaining that the Dems don't call them anymore.