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Old 09-25-2009, 03:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Democrats Are Jarred by Drop In Fundraising

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Democratic political committees have seen a decline in their fundraising fortunes this year, a result of complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers, who have been put off by the party's harsh rhetoric about big business.

The trend is a marked reversal from recent history, in which Democrats have erased the GOP's long-standing fundraising advantage. In the first six months of 2009, Democratic campaign committees' receipts have dropped compared with the same period two years earlier.
The vast majority of those declines were accounted for by the absence of large donors who, strategists say, have shut their checkbooks in part because Democrats have heightened their attacks on the conduct of major financial firms and set their sights on rewriting the laws that regulate their behavior.

As the battle over President Obama's effort to overhaul the health-care system reached a fever pitch this summer, the three national Republican committees combined to bring in $1.7 million more than their Democratic counterparts in August. The pair of Democratic committees tasked with raising money for House and Senate candidates -- and doing so at a time when the party holds its strongest position on Capitol Hill in a generation -- have watched their receipts plummet by a combined 20 percent with little more than a year to go before the November 2010 midterm elections.

Large-scale defeats in the midterms could be a crippling blow to the ambitious agenda mapped out by Obama's top advisers, particularly if they happen in the Senate, where Democrats caucus with a 60-seat filibuster-proof majority. The party will have to work furiously to defend at least six Senate seats and as many as 40 in the House, including many snatched from Republicans.
"If they take them back, this is the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do," Vice President Biden said Monday at a fundraiser for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), whose district was held by a Republican for more than two decades before her 2006 victory
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The Socialists control relies heavily on the uniformed and uninterested voters that choose with their eyes vs. their brains.
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Old 09-25-2009, 03:16 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The Socialists control relies heavily on the uniformed and uninterested voters that choose with their eyes vs. their brains.
Do you really think the military voters overwhelmingly support Democrats? That's an interesting position to take.
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Old 09-25-2009, 03:22 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 09-25-2009, 03:51 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 09-25-2009, 03:54 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Do you really think the military voters overwhelmingly support Democrats? That's an interesting position to take.
Actually I work with many fine military folk. There seems to be a split. Younger ones tend to support zerO while more mature ones are smarter, IMO. There has been a move by many former believers, to distance themselves from open support of zerO - much what it has come from his overexposure and inability to communicate clear thoughts. Just my opinion, of course.

added note = you had me going for a moment. UNIFORMED are the patriotic military folks. UNINFormed are you folks that can't spell. I still got a damn good chuckle out of your comment...
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