thenextright.com - 12/6/2008
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Today, the final fundraising numbers of the 2008 election cycle were released , showing Barack Obama climbing to a staggering $750 million haul for the election season. Obama's spending in the general election was $300 million to McCain's $84 million in public funding. Obama outspent McCain by ...
prospect.org - 12/8/2008
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prospect.org —
Both Greg Sargent and David Sirota react to
a short piece from Obama field operative Steve Hildebrand...
. Hildebrand's piece struck me as a fairly conventional dog-whistle from the Obama folks to the left, trying to reassure them that Obama still ...
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ARE WE READING THE SAME ARTICLE?
politico.com - 12/10/2008
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politico.com —
David Axelrod denied earlier today that Obama had
spoken to Blagojevich about the Senate seat, but not...
that the two men had spoken, and a reader points out that the last time they actually met is obvious -- Obama's visit to the National Governors ...
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Obama and Blago
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How Obama Changed Fundraising
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
By Patrick Appel
Patrick Ruffini says conservatives shouldn't dismiss Obama's fundraising advantage: The real shift we should be thinking about is not the shift from large to small donors. It is the shift from direct mail to the Internet. Republicans have always had a small donor base (in contrast to the pre-McCain-Feingold Democrats). It is called direct mail, and it's why the RNC always outraises the DNC no matter what (even in 2008). But the problem is that 1) it doesn't scale, and 2) the transaction costs are very high -- usually around 30-40% for mailing a housefile and 100% to prospect for new donors.
To put ...
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Why Should He?
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