WASHINGTON — Despite being in the minority in Congress, Republican campaign committees outraised Democrats by $1.7 million in August as they have aggressively collected political cash amid the rancorous debate over health care.
Republicans also held an edge over Democrats in the amount of money available, when counting debts, as both parties set the stage for the 2010 elections, in which more than three dozen competitive House and Senate seats are at stake.
The GOP spike is a departure. In each of the past four years, the party in power — whether Democrat or Republican — raised more than the minority's fundraising committees in August, a USA TODAY review of campaign records shows.
"Republicans have been able to tap into some of the anger against Democrats in power and translate that into fundraising," said Nathan Gonzales of The Rothenberg Political Report. "There are a lot of Republicans who wish the election were this November, not November 2010, because they feel like the momentum is on their side now."
In the Senate, where Republicans are far outnumbered, their fundraising committee collected $3.1 million last month, compared to $2.2 million by the Democratic committee. It was the second month in a row that the Senate GOP committee outperformed Democrats — bringing its fundraising total for the year to $26.5 million, just $1 million less than the Democrats.
I wonder how that painfully honest congressman from South Carolina has done in comparison to his opponent in fundraising since he had the guts to call the president the liar he is? The government controlled press made an effort to show how "America rose up to help his opponent by sending in thousands of dollars to defeat Wilson blah blah blah..."
I would love to see a graph on it!!
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Well, although I agree with Wilson's sentiment as far a obama lying about his healthScare coverage, I don't agree with the method he chose to gain national attention and financial support. It is sad to see our country's political parties with such bad behavior. ALL PARTIES!
Where have all of the GENTLEMEN and LADIES gone? Or did they really ever exist?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Here's the deal.....Obama didn't lie----he left out truth and gave half-truths.......DEMS and REPS do it.....and 'the parties' and their gumbas are to blame......semantics on both parts......Mr.South Carolina just happened to poke the beehive(like he was told to do)
are we that dumb?
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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