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Democrats Ahead in Fundraising Efforts

February 3, 2014 Buck Banks

$42.3 million

Amount the top Democratic candidates in the 52 most competitive House races reported raising in 2013, topping the $34.8 million for the top GOP candidates in those races,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Democrats in the most competitive races reported they had a total of $30.9 million to spend on their campaigns at the end of 2013. That was $6.3 million more than the top Republicans in those races.”

The Media Has the Campaign Fundraising Story Wrong … Again

July 10, 2012July 11, 2012 Buck Banks

You’d think we were watching a horse race the way the media is reporting on campaign fundraising. But of course that’s because the horse race metaphor is easy to understand and easier still to report on.

But NBC’s First Read makes some important points that involve more nuanced analysis and some actual THINKING to get to the heart of the matter:

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What Enthusiasm Gap? DNC Sets Fundraising Record of $16 Million in September

October 8, 2010October 8, 2010 Jon Ponder

$16 Million

Record-breaking fundraising amount collected, mostly in small donations, by the Democratic National Committee in September. This is a stark contrast from fundraising by the Republican National Committee, which missed its goal for September by $3.8 million.

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Democrats Ahead in Fundraising Efforts

$42.3 million

The Media Has the Campaign Fundraising Story Wrong … Again

What Enthusiasm Gap? DNC Sets Fundraising Record of $16 Million in September

$16 Million

Record-breaking fundraising amount collected, mostly in small donations, by the Democratic National Committee in September. This is a stark contrast from fundraising by the Republican National Committee, which missed its goal for September by $3.8 million.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.