{"id":10412,"date":"2007-04-04T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T19:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10412.html"},"modified":"2007-04-04T15:15:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T19:15:32","slug":"dems-candidates-crush-gop-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dems-candidates-crush-gop-in-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem candidates crush GOP in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"

As impressive as Barack Obama’s first quarter fundraising is — and really, it’s astonishing — it’s also worth taking a step back and looking at how both parties are stacking up, in addition to the candidates.<\/p>\n

I was going to tally the numbers, but it looks like Eric Kleefeld already pulled the data together<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Democratic Candidates<\/b>
\nHillary Clinton – $26 million
\nBarack Obama – $25 million
\nJohn Edwards – $14 million
\nBill Richardson – $6 million
\nChris Dodd – $4 million
\nJoe Biden – $3 million<\/p>\n

Total: $78 million<\/b><\/p>\n

(Note: No numbers have yet been reported from Dennis Kucinich.)<\/p>\n

Republican Candidates<\/b>
\nMitt Romney – $23 million (including a loan of $2.35 million from Romney himself)
\nRudy Giuliani – $15 million
\nJohn McCain – $12.5 million
\nSam Brownback – $1.3 million
\nTom Tancredo – $1.3 million
\nMike Huckabee – $500,000<\/p>\n

Total: $53.6 million<\/b><\/p>\n

(Note: No numbers have yet been reported from Duncan Hunter, Tommy Thompson, Ron Paul or Jim Gilmore)<\/p>\n

Their top six vs. our top six shows a nearly $25 million advantage — demonstrating a level of excitement, interest, and enthusiasm on the Democratic side of the aisle that just doesn’t exist among Republicans, who still don’t seem altogether pleased about their field of candidates. <\/p>\n

Sure, a lot can change over the next year and a half, but is it me or does it seem like Dems are looking forward to 2008 a hell of a lot more than the GOP?
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\nAlso consider that the notion of a “donor class” in American politics seems to have disappeared altogether. Mark Schmitt explains<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gore and Bradley had 51,000 contributors between them; we know that Clinton and Obama have 160,000 donors between them; assume another 80,000 among the other four (proportionate to their dollars), and you have roughly a quintupling of the number of people willing to donate early to a Democratic presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

New money and new people — this is not your father’s Democratic Party!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I actually believe the number of donors this year is at least as impressive as the dollar amounts. Maximum contribution limits have gone up since 2000, so that might explain a little<\/i> of the huge windfall, but the number of individual donors reflects a) the influence of the Internet; and b) a fundamental shift in how engaged Americans participate in the process.<\/p>\n

A year and a half before the next election, and just a few months after the last one, a quarter of a million Americans<\/i> donated a total of $78 million to Democratic presidential candidates.<\/p>\n

There’s never been anything like this level of involvement in campaign history. Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As impressive as Barack Obama’s first quarter fundraising is — and really, it’s astonishing — it’s also worth taking a step back and looking at how both parties are stacking up, in addition to the candidates. I was going to tally the numbers, but it looks like Eric Kleefeld already pulled the data together. Democratic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}