{"id":559,"date":"2003-08-27T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T15:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/559.html"},"modified":"2003-08-27T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2003-08-27T15:28:47","slug":"the-last-dem-to-raise-this-much-money-was-named-bill-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-last-dem-to-raise-this-much-money-was-named-bill-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"The last Dem to raise this much money was named Bill Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve got to be kidding me. Howard Dean’s campaign manager, the infamous Joe Trippi, told reporters yesterday that the campaign is on track to raise at least $10.3 million this quarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Un…be…lievable.<\/p>\n

Six months ago, Dean was working with a small staff (single digits) in a small office, talking about the excitement of running a presidential campaign on a “shoe-string budget.” In June, the campaign shocked everyone by raising $7.6 million in Q2, the best quarter of the Dem field. Many, including me, thought it’d be tough to keep up that kind of fundraising pace.<\/p>\n

But $10.3 million? I’m speechless.<\/p>\n

Oh wait, no I’m not. The fact that Trippi is using this figure sets a high bar for Q3 fundraising. As regular readers know, Trippi isn’t my favorite person, but he’s no fool. He knows full well how the expectations game<\/a> works. He would never use an exaggerated figure a month before the quarter ends unless he knew for certain that the campaign would meet — or possibly exceed<\/i> — that figure.<\/p>\n

What’s all the more surprising about this fundraising success is its timing. Q3 isn’t always an easy quarter in which to raise money. These are summer months — people go on vacation, kids go to camp, parents are more focused on back-to-school sales than presidential campaigns.
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\nOne thing to keep in mind is that Dean may be raising money at a ridiculous pace, but he’s also spending it faster than any of his rivals. Starting next week, for example, the Dean campaign will begin airing television ads<\/a> in six states with early Dem primaries — Arizona, Maine, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Washington. The cost is $1 million, which Dean obviously has to spend.<\/p>\n

It’s an interesting strategy, to be sure. Dean holds precarious leads in Iowa and New Hampshire. This ad-buy suggests Dean is counting on winning both and wants to start to build a following in other early primary states so the campaign won’t run out of momentum after two early wins.<\/p>\n

And, of course, Dean’s fundraising prowess is furthering discussion that he’ll brake his earlier promises and abandon the public financing system. If Dean does, prepare to see his rivals — particularly Kerry — use this against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve got to be kidding me. Howard Dean’s campaign manager, the infamous Joe Trippi, told reporters yesterday that the campaign is on track to raise at least $10.3 million this quarter. Un…be…lievable. Six months ago, Dean was working with a small staff (single digits) in a small office, talking about the excitement of running a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}