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Posted By monicachenoa 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsAUSTIN, Texas | Sen. Barack Obama raised $52 million in June and had $72 million banked for the presidential campaign, showcasing a massive donor network that the Democratic candidate can continue to tap until the Nov. 4 election.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 3 months ago
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ybdogsct1 year, 3 months ago
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"John McCain is facing an excitement deficit.
Backers of Barack Obama are more fired up and express more loyalty than McCain's do.
The passion and interest shown by blocs of voters are important because they affect who will be motivated to vote. For now, the numbers favor Obama: 38% of his supporters say the election is exciting compared to 9% of McCain's. 65% of Obama's backers say they are hopeful about the campaign, double McCain's, and the Democrat's supporters are three times likelier to express pride.
Half of McCain's supporters say the race makes them frustrated, more than double Obama's backers who say so. By 2-to-1 or more, McCain backers are likelier than Obama's to say the campaign makes them bored, angry and helpless. And while 16% of those preferring Obama say they may change their candidate, 24% of McCain's say they might do the same."
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Blackacereturn1 year, 3 months ago
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You hope! Keep dreaming. I am going with what I see...people are not going to give money to a guy they don't plan to vote for! So you keep thinking it's for nothing. In this economic time I find it hard to think that people will give away their money for nothing.
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antibrainwasher1 year, 3 months ago
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McSenile and his double talk Express has run out of money to fuel the gas gussler......
excuse me, the coffee's kicking in, I have to go pinch off a Cheney and flush it to the George Bush Sewage Treatment Plant, be right back...
Thanks for waiting. What was I saying.....oh yeah, Obama's winning in red state strong holds, the swiftboaters are getting desperate....
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antibrainwasher1 year, 3 months ago
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Republican Smear Machine Roaring Back To Life
The only thing that could prevent us from matching the Republicans dollar-for-dollar this cycle is the right wing's shadowy network of third-party organizations that make up their devious smear machine. Terrified of losing their last shred of power in Washington, the Republicans are already rushing to resurrect the gang that brought you those Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
The latest news has Freedom's Watch, a vicious right-wing front group founded by Ari Fleischer, announcing that they are expanding their operations to include Senate campaigns. They're hiring key staff from all the worst places: the Bush campaign team, the national Republican Party, and a couple of infamous right-wing organizations.
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lum-chate1 year, 3 months ago
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In November BarrackX will fall flat on his flip-floppin face. He's a fad it will wear off. The "Backtrack Express" is in full gear. Does Obama say ANYTHING you can believe? Change? Yeah, you can believe he'll change his mind as quickly as he changes his word.
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antibrainwasher1 year, 3 months ago
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Like Jonny Jutebox, changing his flip flopping tune every two minutes, dropped incindary bombs from 10,000 feet on vietnamese children, he's regained his form and dropped an enormous hefty trash bag of liquid crap from his WWII biplane, the one recovered when he was shot down over 300 years ago when he was only 60 years old, dropped it on the same swiftboaters who swiftboated him in South Carolina 8 years ago. Splat, can you smell the love?
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antibrainwasher1 year, 3 months ago
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Campaign, Ethics, and Lobbying Reform
50. McCain supported his own lobbying-reform legislation from 1997. Now he doesn't.
51. In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving "feedback" on the proposal, McCain told far-right activist groups that he opposes his own measure.
52. McCain supported a campaign-finance bill, which bore his name, on strengthening the public-financing system. In June 2007, he abandoned his own legislation
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antibrainwasher1 year, 3 months ago
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Politics and Associations
53. McCain wanted political support from radical televangelist John Hagee. Now he doesn't. (He also believes his endorsement from Hagee was both a good and bad idea.)
54. McCain wanted political support from radical televangelist Rod Parsley. Now he doesn't.
55. McCain says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry's Democratic ticket in 2004.
56. McCain is both for and against attacking Barack Obama over his former pastor at his former church.
57. McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as "an agent of intolerance" in 2002, but then decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans "deserved" the 9/11 attacks
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CRYMTYPHON1 year, 3 months ago
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With the economy tanking, prices inflating, gas skyrocketing, there is going to be less money for the poor and the middle class to donate to Obama.
He may indeed have more trouble getting funds than he thought, even as late as this spring.
But it should make us appreciate how much people in this country are counting on him.
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Blackacereturn1 year, 3 months ago
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Tango - What we are looking at here is hopes against hope that McCain might find a way to win. If this continues he will have a hard time finding a VP much less winning. They are hoping that they can convince people to move to McCain good luck with that...7 years ago that worked people were rich from the Clinton experience and worried very little back then, that is not the case now, and they are paying attention. See the republicans caught the Americans sleeping back then. There is no tricking them into voting for a non military man, over a military man, because the non military man is a better war time president, that was dumb. I am off to dinner and watch some horses run good night all.
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ningyo1 year, 3 months ago
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ther is something fishy about this whole barryO donation deal--too smooth..too many "little people"sending considerable sums..sort of like the budhist monks coming up with 5 grand each or the chinese waiter coalition giving the goracle 800 G's or so--something is not right with this--i smell a soros or his middle eastern billionaire pals..
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cushi1 year, 3 months ago
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You smell your own envious stench because your loser of a choice for president, both present and past, have shown that you have next to no judgment when it comes to knowing what is best for you as well as this country. You're right, it STINKS!!
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lum-chate1 year, 3 months ago
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"What we are looking at here is hopes against hope that McCain might find a way to win. If this continues he will have a hard time finding a VP much less winning."
I think it's the other way around.
Obama is having a hard time recruiting a top tier VP as was expected
for such an almost marxist non-traditional candidate and flip-flopper to boot. He may have to pick a literal unknown as Goldwater did in 64' when the mainstream republicans wanted no part of that shipwreck.
The smartest rats on deck are jumpimg ship at every turn. First Strickland, the the favorite Webb, Mark Warner & even Joe Biden isn't champing at the bit, saying I don't want to be asked.
While Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney & the Huckster are all almost campaigning to be the Vp of McCain.
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cushi1 year, 3 months ago
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Obama is taking his time, as he should, in selecting someone who may be called upon to step into the most important elected office in the nation.
Yeah, he's scratching his head so hard, he's in Afghanistan right now, conferring with the powers that be and making your McDufus look like the new idiot on the block that he is.
Now McDufus is fretting and fuming because Obama called his bluff and raised it! Obama 08!!
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jd3rdnoah1 year, 3 months ago
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I now have figured why the media and blacks like him so much. Were does all the money Obama is getting come from. Because of the money the media loves him. Look at how much he has to spend for adds. I bet he has told his brothers to send him there welfare checks that they will get 10 times that when he is elected.This is one democrat that will be voting for McCain.
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